Gammu-installation-from-source-on-Ubuntu.md

Gammu installation from source on Ubuntu

Here we have 10 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 required packages for building Gammu from source in Ubuntu

   apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libbluetooth-dev libmysqlclient-dev cmake
   

3. Download Gammu, navigate to Gammu source package file location and extract

   Download gammu-1.36.2.tar.bz2 from http://wammu.eu and save it in /usr/local/src

   cd /usr/local/src
   wget -c http://dl.cihar.com/gammu/releases/gammu-1.36.2.tar.bz2
   tar -jxf gammu-1.36.2.tar.bz2
   

4. Enter extracted Gammu source package directory and compile Gammu

   cd gammu-1.36.2
   ./configure
   make
   make test
   make install
   ldconfig
   

   Note:

   • Do not forget to run ldconfig

5. Create required directories

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

   Note:

   • The directory names are case-sensitive

6. 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/*
   

7. Get example of gammu-smsdrc 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

8. Get gammu_smsd_start and gammu_smsd_stop scripts from playSMS package and copy to /usr/local/bin

   wget -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antonraharja/playSMS/master/contrib/gammu/linux/gammu_smsd_start
   wget -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antonraharja/playSMS/master/contrib/gammu/linux/gammu_smsd_stop
   cp gammu_smsd_start gammu_smsd_stop /usr/local/bin
   chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gammu_smsd*
   ls -l /usr/local/bin/gammu_smsd*
   

   Note:

   • Do not forget to set executable permission to those files (chmod +x)
   • You might also want to put /usr/local/bin/gammu_smsd_start in /etc/rc.local to get gammu-smsd started on boot

9. Run gammu_smsd_start to start gammu-smsd

   gammu_smsd_start
   

10. 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