How To Install kamailio on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kamailio on Kali Linux.
What is kamailio
kamailio is:
Kamailio is a very fast and flexible SIP (RFC3261) server. Written entirely in C, kamailio can handle thousands requests per second even on low-budget hardware. It can be configured to act as a SIP proxy, application server, session border controller, or call load balancer to handle a set of media servers.
A C Shell like scripting language provides full control over the server’s behaviour. It’s easy to integrate Kamailio with 3rd party API’s and applications using HTTP, AMQP, database drivers, LDAP, Radius and many other solutions. In addition there is support for scripting using Lua, Python, Perl, Java and a set of other languages using Mono.
Kamailio’s modular architecture allows only required functionality to be loaded. There are over 100 modules available: WebSockets for WebRTC, authentication, multiple databases - both traditional SQL databases as well as no-SQL, message bus systems like Rabbit MQ, instant messaging, a presence agent, integration with REST-ful APIs using HTTP and JSON or XML, radius authentication, record routing, an SMS gateway, a XMPP/jabber gateway, a transaction and dialog module, OSP module, statistics support, registrar and user location services, SNMP, SIMPLE Presence and much more.
This package contains the main Kamailio binary along with the principal modules and support binaries.
There are three methods to install kamailio on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install kamailio Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kamailio using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kamailioInstall kamailio Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kamailio using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kamailioInstall kamailio Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install kamailio using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kamailioHow To Uninstall kamailio on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the kamailio package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kamailioUninstall kamailio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kamailio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kamailioRemove kamailio Configurations and Data
To remove kamailio configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kamailioRemove kamailio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kamailio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kamailioDependencies
kamailio have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kamailio package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.