How To Install liblinphone5 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblinphone5 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblinphone5
liblinphone5 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 shared runtime libraries.
There are three methods to install liblinphone5 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 liblinphone5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblinphone5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblinphone5
Install liblinphone5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblinphone5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblinphone5
Install liblinphone5 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 liblinphone5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblinphone5
How To Uninstall liblinphone5 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblinphone5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblinphone5
Uninstall liblinphone5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblinphone5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblinphone5
Remove liblinphone5 Configurations and Data
To remove liblinphone5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblinphone5
Remove liblinphone5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblinphone5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblinphone5
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblinphone5 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
