Package: indicator-datetime New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.3.94-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: misc Maintainer: Ubuntu Desktop Team <ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: i386 Uncompressed Size: 319 k Depends: gconf-service, libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.10), libdbusmenu-glib4 (>= 0.4.2), libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 (>= 0.4.2), libecal-1.2-10 (>= 3.2.3), libedataserver-1.2-15 (>= 3.2.3), libedataserverui-3.0-1 (>= 3.2.3), libgconf-2-4 (>= 2.31.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libgeoclue0 (>= 0.11.1+git20091217), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.29.19), libgnome-control-center1 (>= 1:2.91.2), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.1.4), libical0 (>= 0.30), libido3-0.1-0 (>= 0.2.2), libindicator3-7, libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99), libtimezonemap1, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, gnome-control-center, geoclue-ubuntu-geoip | geoclue-provider Recommends: indicator-applet | indicator-renderer, evolution-data-server Description: Simple clock A simple clock appearing in the indicator bar Homepage: https://launchpad.net/indicator-datetime
Geoclue calls home to geoip.ubuntu.com, as pointed out in this helpful Ubuntuforums thread. Luckily, this is easy to neuter. The thread says you need to recompile indicator-datetime, but that's overkill. We just need a package that "provides" geoclue-provider.
Checkinstall is a great tool for building mostly-working packages from source trees. It can build RPM, Slackware, and Debian packages, and on Ubuntu, it's as easy as
aptitude install checkinstall. Now we just need a source tree.mkdir /tmp/geoclue-provider-1
That was easy. Now to "make" and install our package. Checkinstall defaults to running "make install," but you can specify any other command on the command line. You'll have to answer some prompts to be sure that your "package" will work like we want:
miller@danbuntu:/tmp/geoclue-provider-1$ sudo checkinstall ls checkinstall 1.6.2, Copyright 2009 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran This software is released under the GNU GPL. The package documentation directory ./doc-pak does not exist. Should I create a default set of package docs? [y]: n Please write a description for the package. End your description with an empty line or EOF. >> geoclue killer >> ***************************************** **** Debian package creation selected *** ***************************************** This package will be built according to these values: 0 - Maintainer: [ root@danbuntu ] 1 - Summary: [ geoclue killer ] 2 - Name: [ geoclue-provider ] 3 - Version: [ 1 ] 4 - Release: [ 1 ] 5 - License: [ GPL ] 6 - Group: [ checkinstall ] 7 - Architecture: [ i386 ] 8 - Source location: [ geoclue-provider-1 ] 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] 10 - Requires: [ ] 11 - Provides: [ geoclue-provider ] 12 - Conflicts: [ ] 13 - Replaces: [ ] Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: Installing with ls... ========================= Installation results =========================== description-pak ======================== Installation successful ========================== cp: cannot stat `//var/tmp/tmp.XZZzyKCsmE/newfiles.tmp': No such file or directory Copying files to the temporary directory...OK Stripping ELF binaries and libraries...OK Compressing man pages...OK Building file list... FAILED! Building Debian package...OK Installing Debian package...OK Erasing temporary files...OK Deleting temp dir...OK ********************************************************************** Done. The new package has been installed and saved to /tmp/geoclue-provider-1/geoclue-provider_1-1_i386.deb You can remove it from your system anytime using: dpkg -r geoclue-provider **********************************************************************
Now you are free to remove the offending package:
aptitude purge geoclue-ubuntu-geoip
Yay.
