sipp command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix sipp command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

sipp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sipp: command not found

Solutions to sipp: command not found

How To Fix sipp: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sipp is provided by sip-tester package.

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.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install sip-tester

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install sip-tester.

sudo apt -y install sip-tester

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install sip-tester

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix sipp command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.