How to Install SIPCAPTURE Homer on POP! OS Latest

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing SIPCAPTURE Homer on POP! OS Latest. SIPCAPTURE Homer is an open-source VoIP and RTC Monitoring and Troubleshooting platform. It helps to track, visualize, troubleshoot and analyze SIP, WebRTC, and VoIP services.

Prerequisites

  • A fresh installation of POP! OS Latest
  • A user account with administrative privileges
  • Terminal or Shell access with sudo privileges

Step 1: Update Your System

Before we begin, it's essential to update all the packages and repositories to their latest versions.

You can run the below command in your Terminal or Shell to update your system.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt update: This command will update the package list and all the available software from the repositories.

sudo apt upgrade: This command will upgrade all the packages installed on the system to their latest versions.

Step 2: Install Required Dependencies

SIPCAPTURE Homer requires some dependencies to be installed before installation. The following commands will install all necessary dependencies on your system.

sudo apt-get install -y wget git build-essential libncurses5-dev libssl-dev libpcap-dev libiniparser-dev libgcrypt-dev bison flex

This command will install the following packages:

  • wget: To download the project from the internet.
  • git: To download the HOMER project from the repository.
  • build-essential: These are the essential tools for building Ubuntu packages like gcc, make, etc.
  • libncurses5-dev: This library provides an API for working with terminals.
  • libssl-dev: This library is required to enable SSL support.
  • libpcap-dev: This library allows packet capture.
  • libiniparser-dev: This library provides a C library for parsing INI files.
  • libgcrypt-dev: This library provides a cryptographic library.
  • bison: This software is a general-purpose parser generator that is used to generate parsers.

Step 3: Download and Install SIPCAPTURE Homer

Once we have all the necessary dependencies installed, we can now download and install SIPCAPTURE Homer.

Download SIPCAPTURE Homer

We will use git to clone the SIPCAPTURE Homer source code from the repository.

Run the below command to download SIPCAPTURE Homer.

git clone https://github.com/sipcapture/homer

This command will download the SIPCAPTURE Homer source code from the repository.

Install SIPCAPTURE Homer

After downloading the source code, we need to compile and install it on our system.

Change to the SIPCAPTURE Homer source directory by running the following command:

cd homer

Run the following command to install SIPCAPTURE Homer:

sudo make prod

This command will compile the source code and install SIPCAPTURE Homer on your system.

Step 4: Verify SIPCAPTURE Homer Installation

To check if the SIPCAPTURE Homer installation is successful, we need to check if the SIPCAPTURE Homer service is running.

Run the below command to check the status of the SIPCAPTURE Homer service:

systemctl status homer.service

This command will show the status of the SIPCAPTURE Homer service.

The output should be similar to the following:

● homer.service - HOMER SIP/RTC capturing and monitoring
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/homer.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-11-02 23:15:29 UTC; 17s ago
     Docs: https://sipcapture.org
  Process: 626416 ExecStart=/opt/homer/bin/homer_start.sh.prod (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Memory: 2.5M
   CGroup: /system.slice/homer.service
           ├─626421 /opt/homer/sbin/homer_cron.sh.prod
           ├─638118 /opt/homer/sbin/homer/tcpdump -n -B 32768 -i any -s 65535 (homer/tcpdump) (homer/tcpdump)
           ├─638119 /opt/homer/sbin/homer/cron/cron_hourly.sh.prod (homer/cron_hourly.sh)
           ├─638128 /opt/homer/sbin/homer/cron/cron_daily.sh.prod (homer/cron_daily.sh)
           ├─638135 /opt/homer/sbin/homer/cron/cron_minutely.sh.prod (homer/cron_minutely.sh)
           ├─638144 /opt/homer/sbin/homer/cron/cron_minutely.sh.prod (homer/cron_minutely.sh)
           └─638153 /opt/homer/sbin/homer/cron/cron_minutely.sh.prod (homer/cron_minutely.sh)

This output shows that the SIPCAPTURE Homer service is running successfully.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have learned how to install SIPCAPTURE Homer on POP! OS Latest. Now you can use Homer to track, visualize, troubleshoot and analyze SIP, WebRTC, and VoIP services. You can access the Homer web interface by navigating to http://localhost:80 in your web browser.