Can Linux software trace a unknown call like for example I receive a call from a number and I want to know that from where the person is calling and the number is in whose name and address. Can linux software work in this?

No.
---- rod.

Then can you let me know which software can then hlp us out for this?

Moved: This thread is more suitable in linux-software and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

Only the telephone service provider would have access to the resources to do what you ask.
--- rod.

google reverse directory

Lazlow thanks but I am looking for Indian cell phone number addresses not the US ones

This is not a computer software issue--Linux or otherwise.

As Nbomr already stated, the information required comes from the telephone company. If the person calling you does not have caller ID then (at least in the US), you cannot even get the phone number.

If you are trying to get more info than is officially provided, it is--as a minimum--an invasion of privacy. It could also be illegal. If you have a legitimate need for this information, you would want to talk to the phone company or to law enforcement personnel.

Moved to general, because I agree with Pixellany here.

If it is a cell phone and they do not want to be found you are just SOL. Even in the US they sell burner phones (no real name or address tied to the phone bought with cash). Add to that stolen cell phones and you see how hard it gets.

I'm not sure this thread is worth following further, and as we are in "General" now, here comes a rant / caution:
chandannasta's currently only other thread at LQ is about Here's the link to that post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...r-help-641284/

I'm thinking "encyclopedia", Err, like a whole telephone directory perhaps?

Next thing is he wants telephone numbers reverse-looking up.

He doesn't post where he is from (perhaps it doesn't matter), or exactly what he is trying to achieve, but I for one, am fed up with being cold-called from call centres in (insert country of your choice here) offering me rubbish "deals" on mobile phone / ISP contracts. Bu33er off and leave me in peace, please.

@ chandannasta
Perhaps you can explain your need for this information?

are you friends

Frenchnoob I am unable to understand that code. What do u mean by that?

You are talking about phones and it's linux forum, where the machines are plugged to internet and modems. you wrote :
and not much information.
If you would like info. from the caller in a regular phone, you have to ask the provider. This is totally different things cell phones and internet "network".

In case you are getting phone call to your computer like VOIP, you can trace with softwares/packages I wrote above.
Regards

Aren't phonebooks available for that? If phonebook is available as database, and the call is from "normal" phone (non-cellular, not a phonebooth, etc. plain analog phone), finding caller (or the phone owner) is matter of one SQL request. For identification of cellphone call, you'll need access to the service provider's database, and you can't legally access that just because you want this. Anyway, you always can search with Google for a phone number.