How To Install dahdi-dkms on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dahdi-dkms on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is dahdi-dkms
dahdi-dkms is:
DAHDI (formly Zaptel) is an interface for telephony devices used by e.g. the Asterisk PBX software. The dahdi-* packages provide the kernel DAHDI kernel modules and their required setup environment.
The dkms package will automatically compile the driver for your current kernel version.
There are three methods to install dahdi-dkms on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dahdi-dkms Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dahdi-dkms using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dahdi-dkms
Install dahdi-dkms Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dahdi-dkms using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dahdi-dkms
Install dahdi-dkms 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 dahdi-dkms using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dahdi-dkms
How To Uninstall dahdi-dkms on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the dahdi-dkms package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dahdi-dkms
Uninstall dahdi-dkms And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dahdi-dkms and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dahdi-dkms
Remove dahdi-dkms Configurations and Data
To remove dahdi-dkms configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dahdi-dkms
Remove dahdi-dkms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dahdi-dkms configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dahdi-dkms
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dahdi-dkms package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
