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Pre Conditions:

Before installing FreeSWITCH you must run Run these commands.

#sudo apt-get update
#sudo apt-get install -y gnupg2 wget lsb-release  [Optional]
#sudo apt upgrade

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Update your system

#sudo apt-get update

Go into super user mode to get rid of permission issues.

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For the latest version of Debian such as Book worm we need to follow the following steps as well.

Before we install the freeswitch recorder, we need to clone the Sofia-sip and SpandDSP in /usr/src directory. In case git is not installed please install the git by running the 'apt install git' command.

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In /usr/src run the following commands one by one

#./bootstrap.sh
#./configure
make#make install

Go to the signal wire website and login and then make a token for the installation of freeswitch.. If you already have a token please proceed.

Now, run the following commands one by one to add Freeswitch repositories to your apt directory

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After these commands run the update command and the install command to install Freeswitch.

#sudo apt update
#apt-get install -y freeswitch-meta-all

Restart the Freeswitch and configure it.

build-dep freeswitch

Then get the source. Use the -b flag to get a specific branch for specified version v1.10.10

#cd /usr/src/
#git clone https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch.git -b v1.10.10 freeswitch
#cd freeswitch

Because we're in a branch that will go through many rebases, it’s better to set this one, or you'll get CONFLICTS when pulling (update).

#git config pull.rebase true

#./bootstrap.sh -j
#./configure
#make
#makeinstall

Edit the Recorder System Service

#sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/freeswitch.service

Replace the previous content with this version (omitting User and Group):

[Unit]
Description=FreeSWITCH
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/usr/local/freeswitch/run/freeswitch.pid
ExecStart=/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch -u root -g root -ncwait -nonat
ExecStop=/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch -stop
Restart=always
LimitCORE=infinity
LimitNOFILE=100000
LimitNPROC=60000
LimitSTACK=250000
TimeoutSec=300

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now Reload System and Enable Recorder

#sudo systemctl daemon-reload
#sudo systemctl enable freeswitch

Now start Recorder

#sudo systemctl start freeswitch

Now Verify Recorder Status

#sudo systemctl status freeswitch

Add to path

#export PATH=$PATH:/usr/src/freeswitch

In case of any problem, complete documentation can be found here for the installation of FreeSWITCH. . 

If Recorder was already installed and you want to reinstall it follow this guide

To completely uninstall recorder from a Debian 12 server, you can follow these steps. This will remove both the recorder application and its configuration files:

1. Stop recorder

First, stop the Recorder service if it's running:

#sudo systemctl stop freeswitch

2. Uninstall Recorder Packages

Use apt to remove the recorder packages. This will uninstall recorder but leave the configuration files:

sudo apt remove --purge freeswitch*

The --purge flag ensures that configuration files are also removed.

3. Remove Dependencies

After uninstalling recorder, you can remove any unneeded dependencies:

sudo apt autoremove

4. Delete Leftover Files

Check for any leftover Recorder directories or files and remove them manually:

#sudo rm -rf /usr/local/freeswitch
#sudo rm -rf /etc/freeswitch
#sudo rm -rf /var/lib/freeswitch
#sudo rm -rf /var/log/freeswitch
#sudo rm -rf /var/run/freeswitch

5. Remove User and Group

If Recorder created a specific user and group, you can delete them as well:

#sudo deluser freeswitch
#sudo delgroup freeswitch

6. Verify Removal

You can check if FreeSWITCH has been completely removed by running:

which freeswitch

This should return no output if Recorder is uninstalled completely.

7. Reboot (Optional)

If you want to ensure everything is properly cleaned up, you can reboot the server:

#sudo reboot

This process should completely uninstall FreeSWITCH from your Debian 12 server.