How To Install iio-sensor-proxy on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iio-sensor-proxy on Ubuntu.

What is `iio-sensor-proxy`

iio-sensor-proxy is:

Industrial I/O subsystem is intended to provide support for devices that in some sense are analog to digital or digital to analog convertors

Devices that fall into this category are:

ADCs
Accelerometers
Gyros
IMUs
Capacitance to Digital Converters (CDCs)
Pressure Sensors
Color, Light and Proximity Sensors
Temperature Sensors
Magnetometers
DACs
DDS (Direct Digital Synthesis)
PLLs (Phase Locked Loops)
Variable/Programmable Gain Amplifiers (VGA, PGA)

Many ultrabooks ship with some of these devices. iio-sensor-proxy is intended to serve as a proxy, providing access to these devices through a D-Bus interface

There are three methods to install iio-sensor-proxy on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install iio-sensor-proxy Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install iio-sensor-proxy using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install iio-sensor-proxy

Install iio-sensor-proxy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install iio-sensor-proxy using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install iio-sensor-proxy

Install iio-sensor-proxy Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install iio-sensor-proxy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install iio-sensor-proxy

How To Uninstall iio-sensor-proxy on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the iio-sensor-proxy package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove iio-sensor-proxy

Uninstall iio-sensor-proxy And Its Dependencies

To uninstall iio-sensor-proxy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iio-sensor-proxy

Remove iio-sensor-proxy Configurations and Data

To remove iio-sensor-proxy configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge iio-sensor-proxy

Remove iio-sensor-proxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove iio-sensor-proxy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iio-sensor-proxy

Dependencies

iio-sensor-proxy have the following dependencies:

References

iio-sensor-proxy website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iio-sensor-proxy package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.