How To Install tone-generator-scripts on Debian 12

Learn how to install tone-generator-scripts on Debian 12 with this tutorial. tone-generator-scripts is Telephony Tone Generator (test scripts)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tone-generator-scripts on Debian 12.

What is tone-generator-scripts

tone-generator-scripts is:

Tone Generator is simple daemon which provides generation of playback tones for DTMF (dialer keypad tones), call progress indication, and other miscellaneous telephony-related tones.

Tone Generator is needed by the telephony stack of Lomiri.

This package provdes some test scripts.

There are three methods to install tone-generator-scripts on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tone-generator-scripts Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tone-generator-scripts using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tone-generator-scripts

Install tone-generator-scripts Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tone-generator-scripts using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tone-generator-scripts

Install tone-generator-scripts 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 tone-generator-scripts using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tone-generator-scripts

How To Uninstall tone-generator-scripts on Debian 12

To uninstall only the tone-generator-scripts package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tone-generator-scripts

Uninstall tone-generator-scripts And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tone-generator-scripts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tone-generator-scripts

Remove tone-generator-scripts Configurations and Data

To remove tone-generator-scripts configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tone-generator-scripts

Remove tone-generator-scripts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tone-generator-scripts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tone-generator-scripts

Dependencies

tone-generator-scripts have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tone-generator-scripts package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.