How To Install mgetty-voice on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mgetty-voice on Debian 12.
What is mgetty-voice
mgetty-voice is:
Vgetty allows you to add answering machine / voicemail capability to all the other normal mgetty functions.
The program ‘mgetty’ allows you to use a voice modem as an answering machine and handling external logins without interfering with outgoing calls.
To create and manipulate voice messages, you need the mgetty-pvftools package.
There are three methods to install mgetty-voice 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 mgetty-voice Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mgetty-voice using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mgetty-voice
Install mgetty-voice Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mgetty-voice using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mgetty-voice
Install mgetty-voice 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 mgetty-voice using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mgetty-voice
How To Uninstall mgetty-voice on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mgetty-voice package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mgetty-voice
Uninstall mgetty-voice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mgetty-voice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mgetty-voice
Remove mgetty-voice Configurations and Data
To remove mgetty-voice configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mgetty-voice
Remove mgetty-voice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mgetty-voice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mgetty-voice
Dependencies
mgetty-voice have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mgetty-voice package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
