How To Install baresip-gst on CentOS 8

baresip-gst is GStreamer audio source driver for baresip

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install baresip-gst on CentOS 8.

What is baresip-gst

Baresip is a modular SIP user-agent with audio and video support. This module uses the GStreamer 1.0 framework to play external media and provides them as an internal audio source.

We can use yum or dnf to install baresip-gst on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install baresip-gst.

Install baresip-gst on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install baresip-gst using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install baresip-gst

Install baresip-gst on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install baresip-gst using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install baresip-gst

How To Uninstall baresip-gst on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the baresip-gst package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove baresip-gst

baresip-gst Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/9e0f6fdf8529d33357492f3a1bfeb84a0c951a
/usr/lib64/baresip/modules/gst.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install baresip-gst on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.