How To Install wammu on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wammu on Debian 9.
What is wammu
wammu is:
Mobile phone manager using Gammu as its backend.
It works with any phone that Gammu supports, including many models from Nokia, Siemens, and Alcatel. It has complete support (read, edit, delete, copy) for contacts, todo, and calendar. It can read, save, and send SMS. It includes an SMS composer for multi-part SMS messages, and it can display SMS messages that include pictures. Currently, only text and predefined bitmaps or sounds can be edited in the SMS composer. It can export messages to an IMAP4 server (or other email storage).
This program does not support browsing files in phone, use gMobileMedia instead.
There are three methods to install wammu on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wammu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wammu using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wammu
Install wammu Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wammu using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wammu
Install wammu 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 wammu using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wammu
How To Uninstall wammu on Debian 9
To uninstall only the wammu package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wammu
Uninstall wammu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wammu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wammu
Remove wammu Configurations and Data
To remove wammu configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wammu
Remove wammu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wammu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wammu
Dependencies
wammu have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wammu package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
