How To Install gnokii-smsd on Debian 12

Learn how to install gnokii-smsd on Debian 12 with this tutorial. gnokii-smsd is SMS Daemon for mobile phones

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnokii-smsd on Debian 12.

What is gnokii-smsd

gnokii-smsd is:

Gnokii is a suite of programs that allows communication with mobile phones. It currently supports many Nokia mobile phones, all AT capable ones as well as many Symbian based. For a list of compatible phones, please visit: http://wiki.gnokii.org

The SMSD (SMS daemon) handles automated sending and receiving of short messages using a storage backend. It is designed to use modules (plugins) to work with different backends, and shares Gnokii’s runtime configuration and libraries.

This package contains the actual daemon and a file based backend. You will need to install the appropriate module packages to add support for other backends.

There are three methods to install gnokii-smsd 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 gnokii-smsd Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gnokii-smsd using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gnokii-smsd

Install gnokii-smsd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gnokii-smsd using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gnokii-smsd

Install gnokii-smsd 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 gnokii-smsd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnokii-smsd

How To Uninstall gnokii-smsd on Debian 12

To uninstall only the gnokii-smsd package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnokii-smsd

Uninstall gnokii-smsd And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnokii-smsd

Remove gnokii-smsd Configurations and Data

To remove gnokii-smsd configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnokii-smsd

Remove gnokii-smsd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gnokii-smsd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnokii-smsd

Dependencies

gnokii-smsd have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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