How To Install linphone-common on Debian 12

Learn how to install linphone-common on Debian 12 with this tutorial. linphone-common is Shared components of the linphone SIP softphone

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install linphone-common on Debian 12.

What is linphone-common

linphone-common 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 resource files of linphone (the rings).

There are three methods to install linphone-common on Debian 12. 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install linphone-common

Install linphone-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install linphone-common

Install linphone-common 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 linphone-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install linphone-common

How To Uninstall linphone-common on Debian 12

To uninstall only the linphone-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove linphone-common

Uninstall linphone-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall linphone-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove linphone-common

Remove linphone-common Configurations and Data

To remove linphone-common configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge linphone-common

Remove linphone-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linphone-common

Dependencies

linphone-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install linphone-common package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.