How To Install gnome-phone-manager on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-phone-manager on Debian 10.
What is gnome-phone-manager
gnome-phone-manager is:
Phone Manager is a program created to allow you to control aspects of your mobile phone from your GNOME 2 desktop.
Current features include:
- Runs in the background; indicates status on the panel notification area.
- Display on-screen alert when text message (SMS) arrives
- Text message (SMS) sending facility
- Evolution Addressbook integration
There are three methods to install gnome-phone-manager on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnome-phone-manager Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-phone-manager using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-phone-manager
Install gnome-phone-manager Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-phone-manager using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-phone-manager
Install gnome-phone-manager 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-phone-manager using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-phone-manager
How To Uninstall gnome-phone-manager on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gnome-phone-manager package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-phone-manager
Uninstall gnome-phone-manager And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-phone-manager and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-phone-manager
Remove gnome-phone-manager Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-phone-manager configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-phone-manager
Remove gnome-phone-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-phone-manager configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-phone-manager
Dependencies
gnome-phone-manager have the following dependencies:
- gconf-service
- libatk1.0-0
- libbluetooth3
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libcanberra-gtk3-0
- libcanberra0
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libebackend-1.2-10
- libebook-1.2-19
- libebook-contacts-1.2-2
- libedata-book-1.2-25
- libedataserver-1.2-23
- libgconf-2-4
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnokii6
- libgnome-bluetooth13
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libsecret-1-0
- libsoup2.4-1
- libtelepathy-glib0
- libx11-6
- libxml2
- gconf2
- evolution-data-server
- hicolor-icon-theme
- bluetooth
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-phone-manager package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
