Comment 3 for bug 325288

GpsDrive in Ubuntu (and Debian) is very badly out of date. Like >5 versions ago. Apparently our main Debian packager has lost interest and we haven't found a new one.

Importantly, it is no longer compatible with the version of gpsd Ubuntu ships.
(see Debian bug #585866
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585866
)

it still runs and works fine as a map viewer, but GPS is the main point of using it so...

since that debian bug was filed version 2.11 of the software has been released in the last few weeks with support for the new gpsd API. Since all the devs for the gpsdrive project are either running Debian or Ubuntu, the upstream debian/ directory is in reasonable shape and builds easily on Karmic and Lucid with unofficial packages available from us for download. http://www.gpsdrive.de/build_cluster/results.shtml

The only problem might be that the debian/ dir is a bit over customized. In trunk/debian/ there have been a few fixes to make it lintian clean.

as for this ubuntu ticket, the geo-code script was dropped in SVN almost 19 months ago.
http://gpsdrive.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gpsdrive?view=revision&revision=2204

closing upstream ticket as fixed.

regards,
Hamish
   /
GpsDrive & DebianGIS dev teams (& occasional UbuntuGIS supporter)