How To Install modem-manager-gui on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install modem-manager-gui on CentOS 7.

What is modem-manager-gui

This program is a simple graphical interface for Modem Manager daemon dbus interface. Current features - View device information Signal level. - Send and receive SMS messages with long massages concatenation and store messages in database. - Send USSD requests and read answers in GSM7 and UCS2 formats converted to system UTF8 charset. - Scan available mobile networks.

We can use yum or dnf to install modem-manager-gui on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install modem-manager-gui.

Install modem-manager-gui on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install modem-manager-gui using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install modem-manager-gui

Install modem-manager-gui on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install modem-manager-gui using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install modem-manager-gui

How To Uninstall modem-manager-gui on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the modem-manager-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove modem-manager-gui

References

• modem-manager-gui website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install modem-manager-gui on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.