How To Install baresip-snapshot on CentOS 8

baresip-snapshot is Snapshot video filter using libpng for baresip

Introduction

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

What is baresip-snapshot

Baresip is a modular SIP user-agent with audio and video support. This module takes snapshots of the video stream and saves them as PNG files using libpng.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install baresip-snapshot

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

sudo yum -y install baresip-snapshot

How To Uninstall baresip-snapshot on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove baresip-snapshot

baresip-snapshot Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/2bb5cb789d2eec717451d1de94159b609faf66
/usr/lib64/baresip/modules/snapshot.so

References

Summary

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