How To Install mgetty-voice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mgetty-voice.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mgetty-voice.x86_64 is A program for using your modem and mgetty as an answering machine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mgetty-voice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is mgetty-voice.x86_64

The mgetty-voice package contains the vgetty system, which enables mgetty and your modem to support voice capabilities. In simple terms, vgetty lets your modem act as an answering machine. How well the system will work depends upon your modem, which may or may not be able to handle this kind of implementation. Install mgetty-voice along with mgetty if you’d like to try having your modem act as an answering machine.

We can use yum to install mgetty-voice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mgetty-voice.x86_64.

Install mgetty-voice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mgetty-voice.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mgetty-voice.x86_64

How To Uninstall mgetty-voice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mgetty-voice.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mgetty-voice.x86_64

mgetty-voice.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/logrotate.d/vgetty
/etc/logrotate.d/vm
/etc/mgetty+sendfax
/etc/mgetty+sendfax/voice.conf
/usr/bin/autopvf
/usr/bin/basictopvf
/usr/bin/lintopvf
/usr/bin/pvfamp
/usr/bin/pvfcut
/usr/bin/pvfecho
/usr/bin/pvffft
/usr/bin/pvffile
/usr/bin/pvffilter
/usr/bin/pvfmix
/usr/bin/pvfnoise
/usr/bin/pvfreverse
/usr/bin/pvfsine
/usr/bin/pvfspeed
/usr/bin/pvftoau
/usr/bin/pvftobasic
/usr/bin/pvftolin
/usr/bin/pvftormd
/usr/bin/pvftovoc
/usr/bin/pvftowav
/usr/bin/rmdfile
/usr/bin/rmdtopvf
/usr/bin/vm
/usr/bin/voctopvf
/usr/bin/wavtopvf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/vgetty
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-voice-1.1.36
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-voice-1.1.36/Announce
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-voice-1.1.36/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-voice-1.1.36/NOTE
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-voice-1.1.36/Readme
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-voice-1.1.36/Readme.Beginners
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-voice-1.1.36/Readme.pvftools
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-voice-1.1.36/Readme.voice_shell
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-voice-1.1.36/compression_settings
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-voice-1.1.36/device_settings
/usr/share/man/man1/autopvf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/basictopvf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lintopvf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfamp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfcut.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfecho.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvffft.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvffile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvffilter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfmix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfnoise.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfreverse.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfsine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfspeed.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvftoau.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvftobasic.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvftolin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvftormd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvftovoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvftowav.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rmdfile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rmdtopvf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voctopvf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wavtopvf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zplay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vgetty.8.gz
/var/spool/voice
/var/spool/voice/incoming
/var/spool/voice/messages

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mgetty-voice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.