How To Install linphone on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install linphone
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is linphone
linphone 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.
The main features of linphone are:
- a nice graphical interface;
- it includes a large variety of codecs with different quality / bandwidths;
- it uses the well-known and standardised SIP protocol.
There are three methods to install linphone
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 linphone 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install linphone
Install linphone Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install linphone
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install linphone
Install linphone 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install linphone
How To Uninstall linphone on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the linphone
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove linphone
Uninstall linphone And Its Dependencies
To uninstall linphone
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove linphone
Remove linphone Configurations and Data
To remove linphone
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge linphone
Remove linphone configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove linphone
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linphone
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install linphone
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.