How To Install tone-generator on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tone-generator on Debian 12.
What is tone-generator
tone-generator is:
Tone Generator is simple daemon which provides generation of playback tones for DTMF (dialer keypad tones), call progress indication, and other miscellaneous telephony-related tones.
Tone Generator is needed by the telephony stack of Lomiri.
This package provides the core daemon.
There are three methods to install tone-generator 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 tone-generator Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tone-generator using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tone-generator
Install tone-generator Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tone-generator using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tone-generator
Install tone-generator 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 tone-generator using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tone-generator
How To Uninstall tone-generator on Debian 12
To uninstall only the tone-generator package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tone-generator
Uninstall tone-generator And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tone-generator and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tone-generator
Remove tone-generator Configurations and Data
To remove tone-generator configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tone-generator
Remove tone-generator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tone-generator configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tone-generator
Dependencies
tone-generator have the following dependencies:
- dbus
- pulseaudio
- init-system-helpers
- libc6
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libglib2.0-0
- libpulse-mainloop-glib0
- libpulse0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tone-generator package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
