How To Install liblinphone-dev on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblinphone-dev on Debian 9.

What is liblinphone-dev

liblinphone-dev 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 files needed to use the linphone’s library in your programs.

There are three methods to install liblinphone-dev on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liblinphone-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblinphone-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblinphone-dev

Install liblinphone-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblinphone-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblinphone-dev

Install liblinphone-dev 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 liblinphone-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblinphone-dev

How To Uninstall liblinphone-dev on Debian 9

To uninstall only the liblinphone-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblinphone-dev

Uninstall liblinphone-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblinphone-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblinphone-dev

Remove liblinphone-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liblinphone-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblinphone-dev

Remove liblinphone-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblinphone-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblinphone-dev

Dependencies

liblinphone-dev have the following dependencies:

• liblinphone5
• libmediastreamer-dev
• libortp-dev

References

• liblinphone-dev website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblinphone-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.