How To Install sip-tester on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sip-tester on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 and without openssl due licenses incompatibilities, so authentication is not supported.
There are three methods to install sip-tester on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sip-tester package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
