How To Install sip-tester on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install sip-tester on Debian 9. sip-tester is Performance testing tool for the SIP protocol

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sip-tester on Debian 9.

What is sip-tester

sip-tester is:

sip-tester is a test tool and traffic generator for the SIP protocol. It can be used to test SIP equipment like SIP proxies, SIP media servers, etc. and to emulate user agents calling a SIP system.

Its features are:

  • a few basic SipStone user agent scenarios included
  • custom XML scenario files even for complex call flows
  • comprehensive set of real-time statistics
  • TCP and UDP transport
  • dynamically adjustable call rates
  • send RTP traffic

This software is distributed as SIPp by its authors.

SIP is the Session Initiation Protocol, a standard signalling protocol for initiating, modifying, and terminating Internet conferencing, telephony (VoIP - Voice over IP), video, and instant messaging.

This package has been built for distributed pauses with the GNU Scientific Libraries.

There are three methods to install sip-tester on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install sip-tester Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install sip-tester using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install sip-tester

Install sip-tester Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install sip-tester using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sip-tester

Install sip-tester Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install sip-tester using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sip-tester

How To Uninstall sip-tester on Debian 9

To uninstall only the sip-tester package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sip-tester

Uninstall sip-tester And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sip-tester and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sip-tester

Remove sip-tester Configurations and Data

To remove sip-tester configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sip-tester

Remove sip-tester configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove sip-tester configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sip-tester

Dependencies

sip-tester have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sip-tester package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.