How to install Asterisk 1.6.2 on Debian Lenny

 

This tutorial I am going to go through the basic installation of the most famous open source PBX Asterisk on the Debian Lenny linux distribution. I assume here that you have already a basic installation of Debian Lenny up and running.

 

Installing Dependencies:

# apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` libc6-dev zlib1g-dev bison openssl libssl-dev libasound2 libasound2-dev casino online libslang2-dev libnewt-dev libncurses5-dev binutils cpp-4.1 gcc-4.1 libstdc 6-4.1-dev g make libpq5 libapr1 libexpat1 libaprutil1 libxml2 fxload libusb-dev libiksemel-dev zlib-bin libc6-dev libbluetooth2-dev libxml2-dev

 

Downloading necessary packages: LIBPRI, DAHDI, AND ASTERISK

cd /usr/src

wget http://www.asterisk.org/downloads/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.6.2-current.tar.gz

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/libpri/releases/libpri-1.4.11.3.tar.gz

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux-complete/releases/dahdi-linux-complete-2.3.0.1 2.3.0.tar.gz

 

Libpri Installation

tar -xvzf libpri-1.4.11.3.tar.gz

cd libpri-1.4.11.3

make

make install

 

Dahdi Installation

cd /usr/src

tar -xvzf dahdi-linux-complete-2.3.0.1 2.3.0.tar.gz

cd dahdi-linux-complete-2.3.0.1 2.3.0

make

make install

make config

 

Asterisk Installation

cd /usr/src

tar -xvzf asterisk-1.6.2-current.tar.gz

cd asterisk-1.6.2.11/

make clean

./configure

make

make install

make samples

make config

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At this point you have the basic asterisk system installed on your system and in order to start it just type:

# asterisk

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