How To Install linphone-desktop on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install linphone-desktop on Kali Linux.
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 Kali Linux. 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install linphone-desktop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install linphone-desktopInstall linphone-desktop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install linphone-desktop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install linphone-desktopInstall linphone-desktop Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install linphone-desktop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install linphone-desktopHow To Uninstall linphone-desktop on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the linphone-desktop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove linphone-desktopUninstall linphone-desktop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall linphone-desktop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove linphone-desktopRemove linphone-desktop Configurations and Data
To remove linphone-desktop configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge linphone-desktopRemove 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-desktopDependencies
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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.