How To Install dahdi-linux on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dahdi-linux
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is dahdi-linux
dahdi-linux is:
DAHDI (formly Zaptel) is an interface for telephony devices used by e.g. the Asterisk PBX software. The dahdi-* packages provide the kernel DAHDI kernel modules and their required setup environment.
This package includes the minimal Linux-specific userspace parts: udev configuration, xpp initialization scripts.
Package: dahdi-linux Architecture: all Version: 1:2.11.1~dfsg-1ubuntu6 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/comm Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian VoIP Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 243 Depends: procps, fxload, dahdi-dkms | dahdi-source Filename: pool/universe/d/dahdi-linux/dahdi-linux_2.11.1~dfsg-1ubuntu6_all.deb Size: 66432 MD5sum: 3c6cb6e1e09d05b5f9c9d3686b2f9eb9 SHA1: 79f23165d0e4cd95027da3217f63264a3495b599 SHA256: c5043fb4543a840794348fa4ad1beb0424aff4e113ec92c747ed0a04da3c6f16 Homepage: http://www.asterisk.org/ Description-en: DAHDI telephony interface - Linux userspace parts DAHDI (formly Zaptel) is an interface for telephony devices used by e.g. the Asterisk PBX software. The dahdi-* packages provide the kernel DAHDI kernel modules and their required setup environment.
This package includes the minimal Linux-specific userspace parts: udev configuration, xpp initialization scripts.
There are three methods to install dahdi-linux
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dahdi-linux Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dahdi-linux
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dahdi-linux
Install dahdi-linux Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dahdi-linux
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dahdi-linux
Install dahdi-linux 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 dahdi-linux
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dahdi-linux
How To Uninstall dahdi-linux on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the dahdi-linux
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dahdi-linux
Uninstall dahdi-linux And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dahdi-linux
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dahdi-linux
Remove dahdi-linux Configurations and Data
To remove dahdi-linux
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dahdi-linux
Remove dahdi-linux configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dahdi-linux
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dahdi-linux
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dahdi-linux
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.