How To Install dahdi-firmware-nonfree on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dahdi-firmware-nonfree
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is dahdi-firmware-nonfree
dahdi-firmware-nonfree is:
DAHDI (formely Zaptel) is an interface for telephony devices used by e.g. the Asterisk PBX software. The dahdi-* packages provide the DAHDI kernel modules and their required setup environment.
This package includes the non-free firmwares from the DAHDI tarball as well as downloading script for the Digium firmwares that are normally downloaded on ‘make install’.
There are three methods to install dahdi-firmware-nonfree
on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-firmware-nonfree 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-firmware-nonfree
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dahdi-firmware-nonfree
Install dahdi-firmware-nonfree Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dahdi-firmware-nonfree
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dahdi-firmware-nonfree
Install dahdi-firmware-nonfree 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-firmware-nonfree
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dahdi-firmware-nonfree
How To Uninstall dahdi-firmware-nonfree on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the dahdi-firmware-nonfree
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dahdi-firmware-nonfree
Uninstall dahdi-firmware-nonfree And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dahdi-firmware-nonfree
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dahdi-firmware-nonfree
Remove dahdi-firmware-nonfree Configurations and Data
To remove dahdi-firmware-nonfree
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dahdi-firmware-nonfree
Remove dahdi-firmware-nonfree configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dahdi-firmware-nonfree
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dahdi-firmware-nonfree
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dahdi-firmware-nonfree
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.