linphone command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix linphone command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

linphone: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: linphone: command not found

Solutions to linphone: command not found

How To Fix linphone: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu linphone is provided by linphone-desktop package.

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.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install linphone-desktop

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install linphone-desktop.

sudo apt -y install linphone-desktop

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install linphone-desktop

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix linphone command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.