How To Install jami on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jami
on Debian 11.
What is jami
jami is:
Jami is an end-to-end encrypted secure and distributed voice, video, and chat communication platform that requires no central server and leaves the power of privacy and freedom in the hands of users.
To some degree Jami provides similar functionality like Telegram, BigBlueButton, Jitsi Meet, etc do.
Jami supports the following key features:
- One-to-one conversations
- File sharing
- Audio calls and conferences
- Video calls and conferences
- Screen sharing in video calls and conferences
- Recording and sending audio messages
- Recording and sending video messages
- Functioning as a SIP phone software
Jami client applications for several desktop and mobile operating systems and platforms are available on https://jami.net/, making Jami an interoperable, cross-platform communication framework.
This package contains the Jami desktop client: jami-gnome.
There are three methods to install jami
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install jami Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install jami
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install jami
Install jami Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install jami
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install jami
Install jami 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install jami
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install jami
How To Uninstall jami on Debian 11
To uninstall only the jami
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove jami
Uninstall jami And Its Dependencies
To uninstall jami
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove jami
Remove jami Configurations and Data
To remove jami
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge jami
Remove jami configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove jami
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jami
Dependencies
jami have the following dependencies:
- libayatana-appindicator3-1
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcanberra-gtk3-0
- libcanberra0
- libclutter-1.0-0
- libclutter-gtk-1.0-0
- libgcc-s1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libnm0
- libnotify4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libqrencode4
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5sql5
- libstdc++6
- libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
- libx11-6
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libqt5sql5-sqlite
- jami-daemon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jami
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.