How To Install dahdi-source on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dahdi-source on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is dahdi-source
dahdi-source 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, as well as basic headers for building DAHDI modules and utilities.
It is normally used to build kernel modules package: m-a a-i dahdi
Package: dahdi-source Architecture: all Version: 1:2.11.1~dfsg-1ubuntu6 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/devel Source: dahdi-linux Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian VoIP Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 989 Depends: debhelper (» 4.0), module-assistant (>= 0.8.1), bzip2 Recommends: dahdi-linux Filename: pool/universe/d/dahdi-linux/dahdi-source_2.11.1~dfsg-1ubuntu6_all.deb Size: 895532 MD5sum: 24a42327985ad16d43c26bc9c92dff96 SHA1: d1c613bbb95d6e22a1c3033d3ee81368e3fce64a SHA256: 447d451349fe946eea5a887e31d4fe4b16365d62191d112f0d21c12de29ac54f Homepage: http://www.asterisk.org/ Description-en: DAHDI telephony interface - source code for kernel driver 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, as well as basic headers for building DAHDI modules and utilities.
It is normally used to build kernel modules package: m-a a-i dahdi
There are three methods to install dahdi-source 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-source 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-source using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dahdi-source
Install dahdi-source Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dahdi-source using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dahdi-source
Install dahdi-source 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-source using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dahdi-source
How To Uninstall dahdi-source on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the dahdi-source package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dahdi-source
Uninstall dahdi-source And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dahdi-source and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dahdi-source
Remove dahdi-source Configurations and Data
To remove dahdi-source configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dahdi-source
Remove dahdi-source configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dahdi-source configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dahdi-source
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dahdi-source package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
