linphonec(1)

💖 linphonec 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for linphonec — that's the console interface of linphone, a SIP-compatible internet phone. yes, a phone in your terminal. it's giving main character energy, no cap. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

linphonec — console interface of linphone, a SIP compatible internet phone. 🦋

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🌸 SYNTAX 🌸

linphonec [-d] <debug_level> [-l] <debug_file> [-c] <config_file>
linphonec -v

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Linphonec is literally the console version of the OG Gnome internet phone linphone (http://www.linphone.org). iykyk. 🫶

Linphonec can be started with zero arguments, bestie. it doesn't need any config file to start correctly, and it will create a default one at the first startup if the file does not exist. no cap. by default the path of the config file is ~/.linphonerc. most parameters (proxy, passwords) can be changed from the command line, but for some of them (path of sound rings), you'll need to edit the .linphonerc config file. that's just how it is. 😌

once linphonec has started, linphonec waits for some commands and is ready to receive calls. iconic behavior honestly.

the most important commands are:

• call <sip url> : to call someone. a sip url is in the form sip:user@host 💖
• terminate : to terminate a call 😭
• answer : to accept an incoming call. 🎀
• help : to display interactive help. ⭐

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -d <debug_level> — use debug mode with given verbosity (debug_level). the debug_level is an integer in the range 0..5. 🔥
• -h — output help information and exit. bye bestie 💅
• -l <log_file> — specifies a file where debug information will be written. default is stdout. 🍓
• -c <config_file> — specifies the config file to read at startup. 🌸

📁 FILES 📁

• ~/.linphonec 💜

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

like… nothing here bestie. zero. no environment variables are documented on this page. 🦋

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💀 EXAMPLES 💀

also empty, fr fr. the page gives us no examples. it's giving minimalist. ✨

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🙈 BUGS 🙈

okay this part is important so pay attention, no skimming. 👑

unlike linphonec, the Qt-based graphical linphone application does not use ~/.linphonerc by default anymore — it uses ~/.config/linphone/linphonerc instead. and it is also the application that houses all migration logic for configuration files, chat logs etc. 😭

if you have any existing configuration and/or chat logs, you should run the graphical linphone application to migrate it after every upgrade. do not skip this, bestie.

also — and this is the other part — neither will linphonec create a pristine configuration file for you if none exists yet. it defers to the GUI linphone application for this. so if you're waiting on the console one to set you up, she's not doing it. periodt. 💅

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Florian Winterstein <fwin at gmx.de>
• Simon Morlat <simon.morlat at linphone.org>

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• linphone(1)
• sipomatic(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one was written by Florian Winterstein & Simon MORLAT, and it's version 1.0.0 of the linphonec manual. go make some calls in your terminal, you absolute icon. 🦋💖✨🎀💅🫶