How To Install linphone-cli on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install linphone-cli on Ubuntu.
What is linphone-cli
linphone-cli is:
Linphone is an audio and video internet phone using the SIP protocol. It has a GTK+ and console interface, includes a large variety of audio and video codecs, and provides IM features.
This package contains the console version of linphone.
There are three methods to install linphone-cli on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install linphone-cli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install linphone-cli using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install linphone-cli
Install linphone-cli Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install linphone-cli using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install linphone-cli
Install linphone-cli 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 linphone-cli using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install linphone-cli
How To Uninstall linphone-cli on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the linphone-cli package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove linphone-cli
Uninstall linphone-cli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall linphone-cli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove linphone-cli
Remove linphone-cli Configurations and Data
To remove linphone-cli configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge linphone-cli
Remove linphone-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove linphone-cli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linphone-cli
Dependencies
linphone-cli have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install linphone-cli package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.