Linphone contacts.

[pe...@easthope.ca]

Hi,

In Debian 10, linphone contacts are likely stored in
~/.linphone-friends.db. Documentation that I've found doesn't explain.

Can some other application extract the contacts as plain text? SQlite?
What packages are required?

Thanks, ... Peter E.



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[Reco]

Hi.

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 06:01:58PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Debian 10, linphone contacts are likely stored in
> ~/.linphone-friends.db. Documentation that I've found doesn't explain.

A quick look at linphone's source reveals that it should be sqlite,
version 3. BTW there's file(1) that could tell you the same:

file -sL ~/.linphone-friends.db

> Can some other application extract the contacts as plain text?

An "application"? Do not know and do not care.
A "program"?
Install sqlite3, point it to your .linphone-friends.db, execute:

select * from friends;

Reco

[pe...@easthope.ca]

From: Reco <recoverym4n@...uniq.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 10:49:52 +0300

> A quick look at linphone's source reveals that it should be sqlite,
> version 3. BTW there's file(1) that could tell you the same:
>
> file -sL ~/.linphone-friends.db

OK, thanks.

> Install sqlite3, point it to your .linphone-friends.db, execute:
>
> select * from friends;

Thanks for that also.

For others who might be interested, a few observations.

https://sqlite.org/cli.html is more complete than the manual. =8~)

"man sqlite3" and the Web page list meta-commands, also referred to as
dot-commands. Statements are mentioned but not listed.

>From the manual,
.schema ?PATTERN? Show the CREATE statements matching PATTERN

.schema seems to list statements. ".schema main.*" gives some
unformatted output. I don't get the question marks. Delimiters?
Regular expressionese?

Found all I need from linphone contacts. Thanks, ... P.

[Cousin Stanley]

pe...@easthope.ca wrote:

> In Debian 10, linphone contacts are likely
> stored in ~/.linphone-friends.db.
>
> Documentation that I've found doesn't explain.
>
> Can some other application extract the contacts as plain text?
>
> SQlite?

I don't have linphone installed
but sqlite is listed among
its dependencies ....

$ apt-cache depends linphone | grep sql
Depends: libsqlite3-0


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[Greg Wooledge]

> pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
>
> > In Debian 10, linphone contacts are likely
> > stored in ~/.linphone-friends.db.
> >
> > Documentation that I've found doesn't explain.
> >
> > Can some other application extract the contacts as plain text?
> >
> > SQlite?

Start by using file(1) to see what kind of data might be in the file.

For example:

unicorn:~/.mozilla/firefox/0uik3i3z.default$ file cert8.db
cert8.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order)

unicorn:~/.mozilla/firefox/0uik3i3z.default$ file permissions.sqlite
permissions.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database, user version 10, last written using SQLite version 3028000

If file(1) claims that it's an SQLite database, then you can use the
sqlite3 package to probe it from a shell, or use your favorite programming
language's sqlite3 bindings to open it up.

unicorn:~/.mozilla/firefox/0uik3i3z.default$ sqlite3 permissions.sqlite .schema
Error: database is locked
unicorn:~/.mozilla/firefox/0uik3i3z.default$ cp permissions.sqlite ~/x
unicorn:~/.mozilla/firefox/0uik3i3z.default$ sqlite3 ~/x .schema
CREATE TABLE moz_hosts ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,host TEXT,type TEXT,permission INTEGER,expireType INTEGER,expireTime INTEGER,appId INTEGER,isInBrowserElement INTEGER, modificationTime INTEGER);
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS "moz_perms" ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,origin TEXT,type TEXT,permission INTEGER,expireType INTEGER,expireTime INTEGER,modificationTime INTEGER);

And so on. If file(1) claims that it's someting else, like a Berkeley DB,
then you'd need to use different tools.