How To Install linphone-desktop on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install linphone-desktop on Debian 11.
What is linphone-desktop
linphone-desktop is:
Linphone is an audio and video internet phone using the SIP protocol.
The main features of linphone are:
- a nice graphical interface;
- it includes a large variety of codecs with different quality / bandwidths;
- it uses the well-known and standardised SIP protocol.
This package includes the Qt/QML based graphical desktop client.
There are three methods to install linphone-desktop 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 linphone-desktop 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-desktop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install linphone-desktop
Install linphone-desktop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install linphone-desktop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install linphone-desktop
Install linphone-desktop 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-desktop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install linphone-desktop
How To Uninstall linphone-desktop on Debian 11
To uninstall only the linphone-desktop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove linphone-desktop
Uninstall linphone-desktop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall linphone-desktop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove linphone-desktop
Remove linphone-desktop Configurations and Data
To remove linphone-desktop configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge linphone-desktop
Remove linphone-desktop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove linphone-desktop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linphone-desktop
Dependencies
linphone-desktop have the following dependencies:
- linphone-common
- qml-module-qt-labs-platform
- qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects
- qml-module-qtquick-controls
- qml-module-qtquick-controls2
- qml-module-qtquick-dialogs
- qml-module-qtquick-layouts
- qml-module-qtquick-window2
- qml-module-qtquick2
- libbctoolbox1
- libbctoolbox1
- libbelcard1
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- liblinphone++10
- liblinphone10
- libmediastreamer11
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install linphone-desktop package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
