How To Install baresip-gtk on CentOS 8

baresip-gtk is GTK+ menu-based user interface module for baresip

Introduction

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

What is baresip-gtk

Baresip is a modular SIP user-agent with audio and video support. This module provides a GTK+ menu-based user interface. Note support. Use ‘GDK_BACKEND=x11 baresip’ to override it to Xwayland.

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

Install baresip-gtk 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-gtk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install baresip-gtk

Install baresip-gtk 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-gtk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install baresip-gtk

How To Uninstall baresip-gtk on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove baresip-gtk

baresip-gtk Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/c148dd51dccd5d7f836a2b5099e61a8e7b836c
/usr/lib64/baresip/modules/gtk.so
/usr/share/applications/com.github.baresip.desktop
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/16x16/status/call-incoming-symbolic.symbolic.png
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/16x16/status/call-outgoing-symbolic.symbolic.png
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/status/call-incoming-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/status/call-outgoing-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/baresip-gtk
/usr/share/licenses/baresip-gtk/COPYING.adwaita-icon-theme
/usr/share/licenses/baresip-gtk/COPYING_CCBYSA3.adwaita-icon-theme
/usr/share/licenses/baresip-gtk/COPYING_LGPL.adwaita-icon-theme

References

Summary

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