How To Install minimodem on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install minimodem
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is minimodem
minimodem is:
Minimodem is a command-line program which decodes (or generates) audio modem tones at any specified baud rate, using various framing protocols. It acts a general-purpose software FSK modem, and includes support for various standard FSK protocols such as Bell103, Bell202, RTTY, TTY/TDD, NOAA SAME, and Caller-ID.
Minimodem can play and capture audio modem tones in real-time via the system audio device, or in batched mode via audio files.
Minimodem can be used to transfer data between nearby computers using an audio cable (or just via sound waves), or between remote computers using radio, telephone, or another audio communications medium.
There are three methods to install minimodem
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install minimodem Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install minimodem
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install minimodem
Install minimodem Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install minimodem
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install minimodem
Install minimodem 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 minimodem
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install minimodem
How To Uninstall minimodem on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the minimodem
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove minimodem
Uninstall minimodem And Its Dependencies
To uninstall minimodem
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove minimodem
Remove minimodem Configurations and Data
To remove minimodem
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge minimodem
Remove minimodem configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove minimodem
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minimodem
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install minimodem
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.