Asterisk Install

Installing Asterisk 1.6.x

OK, Asterisk 1.6.0 is out and I'm going to take the plunge. I am going to document my steps below. The following is based on CentOS 5.2 as been installed with the minimal components including the development tools.

The First thing I did was to download the Asterisk source files.

Asterisk 1.6.0
DAHDI Linux 2.0.0
DAHDI Tools 2.0.0
Addons 1.6.0

I did not download and install the Libpri package as I don't have any primary rate cards installed on my system.

dahdi-linux

DAHDI (stands for Digium Asterisk Hardware Device Interface) is the replacement for Zaptel. As I have an X100P card installed into my system I need to install the Linux driver. If you do not have any telecommunications cards installed you will not need to install the module.

tar xvzf dahdi-linux-2.0.0.tar.gz
cd dahdi-linux-2.0.0
make
make install

dahdi-tools

tar xvzf dahdi-tools-2.0.0.tar.gz
cd dahdi-tools-2.0.0

./configure
make menuselect
make
make install
make config

Once the above is done we need to edit /etc/dahdi/modules and make sure that only the required dahdi module(s) is/are loaded.

asterisk

faxing prerequisites

If you would like to be able to use faxing capabilities with Asteirsk you need to install a few packages so that Asterisk can build the faxing components.

yum install libtiff-devel
wget http://www.soft-switch.org/downloads/spandsp/spandsp-0.0.5pre4.tgz
zcat spandsp-0.0.5pre4.tgz | tar xf -
cd spandsp-0.0.5
./configure
make
make install

installation

tar xvzf asterisk-1.6.0.tar.gz
cd asterisk-1.6.0
./configure
make menuselect
make
make install
make samples
make config

asterisk-addons

prerequisite

One of the main features ofr asterisk-addons is the ability to log CDR to mysql. I found that mysql is required to be started for the addons to recognise the requirement of mysqlclienttools.

If you are not interested in logging CDR to mysql then this step is not required.

yum install mysql-server mysql-devel
service mysqld start
chkconfig mysqld on

installation

tar xvzf asterisk-addons-1.6.0.tar.gz
cd asterisk-addons-1.6.0

./configure
make menuselect
make
make install