# sofia-sip mit Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, pacman, zypper, apt, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für sofia-sip in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:sofia-sip
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sofia-sip
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install sofia-sip
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: comms/sofia-sip/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add sofia-sip
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: sofia-sip from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install sofia-sip
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: sofia-sip from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S sofia-sip
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: sofia-sip from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install sofia-sip
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: sofia-sip from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install libsofia-sip-ua-dev
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: libsofia-sip-ua-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#sofia_sip
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/so/sofia_sip/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:sofia-sip
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.13.17
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** SIP User-Agent library
- **Homepage:** <https://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/freeswitch/sofia-sip>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- addrinfo (Alias)
- localinfo (Alias)
- sip-date (Alias)
- sip-dig (Alias)
- sip-options (Alias)
- stunc (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.13.17
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Sofia-SIP is an LGPL SIP user-agent library and companion utility suite rooted in Nokia Research Center SIP stack work and now maintained from the FreeSWITCH GitHub organization.

### Projektgeschichte

The Sofia-SIP project site describes the library as an open-source SIP User-Agent implementation compliant with IETF RFC3261 and based on a SIP stack developed at the Nokia Research Center. Its original documentation centered on GNU/Linux, SIP client building blocks, VoIP, instant messaging, and person-to-person communication services.

The SourceForge-era site lists 1.12.11, dated 2011-03-11, as the latest release from that project page and now warns that the old repository is not currently maintained. The same page directs users to the FreeSWITCH-hosted GitHub repository as the maintained version.

The current FreeSWITCH README keeps the same core identity: Sofia-SIP is a C library built with GNU autotools, with libsofia-sip-ua as the main user-agent library and small utilities such as sip-options, sip-date, addrinfo, and localinfo.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Sofia-SIP's adoption came through VoIP and real-time communications software rather than through an end-user command alone. The official site listed Telepathy and FreeSWITCH among projects using it, and the maintained repository now lives under FreeSWITCH.

Its package-manager footprint is broad for a C networking library: the input records packages for Homebrew, Debian and Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine, Arch, MacPorts, Nix, and openSUSE-style zypper ecosystems.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Developers use Sofia-SIP as a SIP stack for clients, servers, and protocol utilities. The installed command-line tools are useful for package smoke tests and protocol diagnostics: sip-options queries with the OPTIONS method, sip-date handles SIP date parsing and printing, and addrinfo/localinfo expose supporting network information.

The library supports SIP transports over IPv4 and IPv6, UDP and TCP, SSL/TLS signaling, SIMPLE presence and instant messaging, STUN-related NAT traversal, and SDP offer-answer functionality, according to the official project page.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Sofia-SIP is package-nerd-significant because it is the kind of small C library that keeps telephony stacks portable across distributions. The package is less about a flashy CLI and more about headers, shared libraries, pkg-config-style build integration, and a few protocol inspection tools.

Its history also shows a common open-source lifecycle: an older SourceForge project with reference documentation, a long-lived packaged ABI, and later maintenance through a larger downstream user, FreeSWITCH.

### Zeitleiste

- 2000s: SIP stack work from Nokia Research Center becomes the basis for Sofia-SIP.
- 2011-03: SourceForge project page lists Sofia-SIP 1.12.11 as the latest release.
- 2020: FreeSWITCH GitHub repository for the maintained Sofia-SIP source is created.
- 2020s: Sofia-SIP remains packaged across common Unix-like package managers.

### Related projects

- FreeSWITCH: current maintainer namespace and major Sofia-SIP user.
- Telepathy: listed by the Sofia-SIP project site as a project using Sofia-SIP.
- SIP and RFC3261: the protocol target that defines the library's main role.
- STUN and SDP offer-answer: protocol areas covered by Sofia-SIP modules.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/freeswitch/sofia-sip>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freeswitch/sofia-sip/master/README>
- <https://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/>
- source_facts.executables
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- library-like package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - libsofia-sip-ua-dev - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libsofia-sip-ua-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Sofia-SIP library development files | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- Debian apt - libsofia-sip-ua-glib-dev - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libsofia-sip-ua-glib-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Sofia-SIP library glib/gobject interface development files | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- Debian apt - libsofia-sip-ua-glib3t64 - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libsofia-sip-ua-glib3t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Sofia-SIP library glib/gobject interfaces runtime | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- Debian apt - libsofia-sip-ua0t64 - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libsofia-sip-ua0t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Sofia-SIP library runtime | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- Debian apt - sofia-sip-bin - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: sofia-sip-bin from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Sofia-SIP library utilities | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- Debian apt - sofia-sip-doc - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: sofia-sip-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Sofia-SIP library documentation | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- Nix - sofia_sip: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/so/sofia_sip/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - libsofia-sip-ua-dev - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libsofia-sip-ua-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Sofia-SIP library development files | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- Ubuntu apt - libsofia-sip-ua-glib-dev - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libsofia-sip-ua-glib-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Sofia-SIP library glib/gobject interface development files | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- Ubuntu apt - libsofia-sip-ua-glib3t64 - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libsofia-sip-ua-glib3t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Sofia-SIP library glib/gobject interfaces runtime | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- Ubuntu apt - libsofia-sip-ua0t64 - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libsofia-sip-ua0t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Sofia-SIP library runtime | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- Ubuntu apt - sofia-sip-bin - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: sofia-sip-bin from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Sofia-SIP library utilities | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- Ubuntu apt - sofia-sip-doc - 1.12.11+20110422.1+1e14eea~dfsg-6.1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: sofia-sip-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Sofia-SIP library documentation | http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/
- apk - sofia-sip - 1.13.17-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: sofia-sip from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | RFC3261 compliant SIP User-Agent library | https://github.com/freeswitch/sofia-sip
- apk - sofia-sip-dbg - 1.13.17-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: sofia-sip-dbg from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | RFC3261 compliant SIP User-Agent library (debug symbols) | https://github.com/freeswitch/sofia-sip
- apk - sofia-sip-dev - 1.13.17-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: sofia-sip-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | RFC3261 compliant SIP User-Agent library (development files) | https://github.com/freeswitch/sofia-sip


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/sofia-sip.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/sofia-sip.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
