Asterisk Installation

I install an Asterisk PBX from source code on a newly installed Debian system.I am using Debian Etch (4.0) . login as root during the whole process in order to complete all installations properly.

upgrade the system to the latest package versions:

# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade

To make things install properly, please install the following packages:

# apt-get install acpid \
apache2 \
apache2.2-common \
apache2-mpm-prefork \
apache2-utils \
bison \
bzip2 \
doxygen \
festival \
festival-dev \
gcc \
graphviz \
gsfonts \
less \
libapache2-mod-php5 \
libcurl3 \
libcurl3-dev \
libdbd-mysql-perl \
libedit2 \
libedit-dev \
libeditline0 \
libeditline-dev \
libgcrypt11 \
libmcrypt4 \
libmcrypt-dev \
libmhash2 \
libmysqlclient15-dev \
libmysqlclient15off \
libncurses5 \
libncurses5-dev \
libnewt0.52 \
libnewt-dev \
libspeex1 \
libspeex-dev \
libssl0.9.7 \
libssl-dev \
linux-headers-2.6-686 \
linux-image-2.6-686 \
lrzsz \
make \
mc \
mcrypt \
mysql-server \
ngrep \
openssh-server \
openssl \
patch \
php5-cgi \
php5-cli \
php5-common \
php5-gd \
php5-mcrypt \
php5-mysql \
phpmyadmin \
php-pear \
tofrodos \
zlib1g-dev

Download

We now continue to download the recent sources to "/var/download" and unpack them to "/usr/src"

Compile and Install

ZapTel

The first package I have to install is zaptel. Zaptel is a collection of kernel drivers and configuration utilities for Digium hardware such as analog and digital telephony interface cards. Zaptel also offers the ztdummy kernel module which allows you to run Asterisk without any telephony hardware, it makes use of the kernel realtime clock (RTC) interface. This has to be used when using Asterisk installations with multiple concurrent calls.

LibPri

LibPri is a mandatory library, Asterisk makes use of when taking to telephony hardware or timing interfaces, even if it is the ztdummy interface.

Asterisk

This is the Asterisk software itself, I build and install it with the following commands

Asterisk-AddOns

The Asterisk-addons are needed to
- offer MySQL storage of CDRs
- enable ARA (Asterisk Realtime Architecture) to store SIP and IAX users/peers in MySQL
- enabling MP3 format in soundfiles and voicemail