Gammu-installation-via-apt-get-on-Ubuntu.md

Gammu installation via apt-get on Ubuntu

Here we have 7 steps that you need to follow one step at a time and in order.

Please stop, do not continue to the next step, and post questions in playSMS Forum when you experienced difficulties or found error during following this manual.

Let's start.

1. Make sure you have root access

   sudo su -
   

2. Install Gammu via apt-get

   apt-get install gammu gammu-smsd
   

3. Create required directories

   mkdir -p /var/log/gammu /var/spool/gammu/{inbox,outbox,sent,error}
   

   Note:

   • The directory names are case-sensitive

4. Setup Gammu spool directories owner and permission

   In this example your webserver's user and group is www-data

   chown www-data:www-data -R /var/spool/gammu/*
   

   You can also set files and folders permission to world-writable

   chmod 777 -R /var/spool/gammu/*
   

5. Get example of gammu-smsdrc from playSMS package and copy to /etc/

   wget -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antonraharja/playSMS/master/contrib/gammu/linux/gammu-smsdrc
   cp gammu-smsdrc /etc/
   

   Note:

   • Before continue to the next step you have to take a look at /etc/gammu-smsdrc and edit the file accordingly
   • Try to identify your modem by running gammu --config /etc/gammu-smsdrc identify
   • You may need to adjust the port and connection options
   • Mostly you do not need to change other options
   • Do not change the file or directory paths

6. Run gammu-smsd

   /etc/init.d/gammu-smsd start
   

7. Verify if gammu-smsd is running

   ps ax | grep -v grep | grep gammu-smsd
   

   Monitor Gammu smsd log file:

   tail -f /var/log/gammu/smsd.log