How To Install linphone-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install linphone-common on Debian 9.
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 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 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.