How To Install linphone on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install linphone on Kali Linux.

What is linphone

linphone 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 is a transitional package. It can safely be removed.

There are three methods to install linphone 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install linphone

Install linphone Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install linphone

Install linphone 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 update

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

sudo aptitude -y install linphone

How To Uninstall linphone on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove linphone

Uninstall linphone And Its Dependencies

To uninstall linphone and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove linphone

Remove linphone Configurations and Data

To remove linphone configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge linphone

Remove linphone configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linphone

Dependencies

linphone have the following dependencies:

• linphone-desktop

References

• linphone website

Summary

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