So I'm looking to set up SIP/VOIP software on my main Linux box. I already
have a SIP account via CallCentric, and it works fine on my Android phone.
I do "aptitude search sip" and find ... no SIP phone clients. There is
something called baresip and a bunch of development tools and libraries and
servers. "baresip" sounds not-full-featured enough for a newbie like me.
So I remember from my web searching that Ekiga is one of the best-known and
popular SIP phone apps.
carlf@debian-nitpicking:~$ aptitude search ekiga
p ekiga
- H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client
p ekiga:i386
- H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client
p ekiga-dbg
- H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client - debug symbols
p ekiga-dbg:i386
- H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client - debug symbols
p ekiga-plugin-evolution
- H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client - evolution plugin
p ekiga-plugin-evolution:i386
- H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client - evolution plugin
OK, Ekiga is part of Debian Testing. So why is it not appearing?
carlf@debian-nitpicking:~$ aptitude search sip | grep -i ekiga
carlf@debian-nitpicking:~$
OK, definitely not appearing. But
carlf@debian-nitpicking:~$ apt-cache search sip | grep ekiga
ekiga - H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client
ekiga-dbg - H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client - debug symbols
ekiga-plugin-evolution - H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP client - evolution plugin
carlf@debian-nitpicking:~$
apt-cache *does* find it? From presumably the same apt database? Is that a
problem? I have never dug into the externals of the various apt programs,
but naively I'd expect the same behavior from the two searches, and
certainly aptitude not finding ekiga on a search for SIP seems wrong.
Thoughts? I'll submit a bug report if warranted but I thought I'd get the
community's opinion first.
Note that "aptitude search voip" finds nothing, either.
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