How To Install sipwitch on Fedora 34

sipwitch is A secure peer-to-peer VoIP server for the SIP protocol

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sipwitch on Fedora 34.

What is sipwitch

GNU SIP Witch is a secure peer-to-peer VoIP server. Calls can be made even behind NAT firewalls, and without needing a service provider. SIP Witch can be used on the desktop to create bottom-up secure calling networks as a free software alternative to Skype. SIP Witch can also be used as a stand- alone SIP-based office telephone server, or to create secure VoIP networks for an existing IP-PBX such as Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, or Yate.

We can use yum or dnf to install sipwitch on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sipwitch.

Install sipwitch on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install sipwitch

Install sipwitch on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install sipwitch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sipwitch

How To Uninstall sipwitch on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the sipwitch package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sipwitch

sipwitch Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/cron.hourly/sipwitch
/etc/default/sipwitch
/etc/logrotate.d/sipwitch
/etc/sipwitch.conf
/etc/sipwitch.d
/etc/sipwitch.d/lab.xml-example
/etc/sipwitch.d/tests.xml
/usr/bin/sipcontrol
/usr/bin/sippasswd
/usr/bin/sipquery
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/3b4d25a236fbc0f90ba301e28def5cf89a63f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/90425d6975e4e72ae6e8bb904ffa8bedeee2af
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/2773bf233a6cbe77950b2f72afddf8e2bb1ec7
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/b18e062acb574fccca529515a7759cbebe0ec7
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sipwitch.service
/usr/lib64/sipwitch
/usr/sbin/sipw
/usr/share/doc/sipwitch
/usr/share/doc/sipwitch/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sipwitch/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/sipwitch/FEATURES
/usr/share/doc/sipwitch/MODULES
/usr/share/doc/sipwitch/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/sipwitch/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/sipwitch/README
/usr/share/doc/sipwitch/SUPPORT
/usr/share/doc/sipwitch/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/sipwitch
/usr/share/licenses/sipwitch/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/sipcontrol.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sippasswd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sipquery.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sipw.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sipwitch on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.