How To Install plasma-dialer on Debian 12

Learn how to install plasma-dialer on Debian 12 with this tutorial. plasma-dialer is Dialer for Plasma Mobile

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-dialer on Debian 12.

What is plasma-dialer

plasma-dialer is:

This application aims at enabling voice calls features inside a Plasma Mobile environment.

It is based on Qt graphical libraries and relies on some KDE Frameworks. It depends on ModemManager in order to interface with the radio device, and on Callaudio to manage audio profiles during voice calls.

There are three methods to install plasma-dialer 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 plasma-dialer Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install plasma-dialer

Install plasma-dialer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plasma-dialer

Install plasma-dialer 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 plasma-dialer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plasma-dialer

How To Uninstall plasma-dialer on Debian 12

To uninstall only the plasma-dialer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove plasma-dialer

Uninstall plasma-dialer And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-dialer

Remove plasma-dialer Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-dialer

Remove plasma-dialer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-dialer

Dependencies

plasma-dialer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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