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I have had the Garmin GPSmap 60CSx for awhile and have always used the Garmin software on my windows box to get my waypoints off the Garmin handset and onto my computer. Truth be told, I barely use my GPS, but that is starting to change. To use it more, means I need to be able to get my waypoints onto my Linux box. Searching around, I found GPSBabel, and it works like a charm. Installing with apt-get was easy as always:

sudo apt-get install gpsbabel

Per instruction on this page, I used the following command to grab the waypoints and drop on my computer. Just make sure to use sudo, or you may get errors. Looks like an interesting program with lots of features. Looking forward to using it more.

sudo gpsbabel -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F waypoints.gpx

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