How To Install osmo-bsc-mgcp on Debian 10

Learn how to install osmo-bsc-mgcp on Debian 10 with this tutorial. osmo-bsc-mgcp is Osmocoms Legacy Media Gateway

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install osmo-bsc-mgcp on Debian 10.

What is osmo-bsc-mgcp

osmo-bsc-mgcp is:

OsmoMGW, the Osmocom Media Gateway, is a Media Gateway for handling user plane (voice) traffic in cellular networks.

OsmoMGW is the generalized version of an earlier much more special-purpose implementation called osmo-bsc_mgcp.

This package contains deprecated software, please use osmo-mgw instead.

There are three methods to install osmo-bsc-mgcp on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install osmo-bsc-mgcp Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install osmo-bsc-mgcp using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install osmo-bsc-mgcp

Install osmo-bsc-mgcp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install osmo-bsc-mgcp using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install osmo-bsc-mgcp

Install osmo-bsc-mgcp 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 osmo-bsc-mgcp using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install osmo-bsc-mgcp

How To Uninstall osmo-bsc-mgcp on Debian 10

To uninstall only the osmo-bsc-mgcp package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove osmo-bsc-mgcp

Uninstall osmo-bsc-mgcp And Its Dependencies

To uninstall osmo-bsc-mgcp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove osmo-bsc-mgcp

Remove osmo-bsc-mgcp Configurations and Data

To remove osmo-bsc-mgcp configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge osmo-bsc-mgcp

Remove osmo-bsc-mgcp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove osmo-bsc-mgcp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge osmo-bsc-mgcp

Dependencies

osmo-bsc-mgcp have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install osmo-bsc-mgcp package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.