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How to Install Asterisk 11 in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint

By Ravi Saive Under: Open Source On: April 2, 2013
Install Asterisk Centos Linux

Download Your Free eBook NOW - The GNU/Linux Advanced Administration Asterisk is an Open Source software PBX (Private Branch Exchange ), developed by Mark Specer of Digium. It allows you to make calls to one another which may have connected to other PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Asterisk runs on Linux, BSD, MacOSX and others. Having builtin features like voicemail, conferencing, IVR, queuing etc. In this article, we are going to see a basic installation and working of Asterisk 11 in RHEL 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6.0, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6.0, Fedora 18,17,16, Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10, Linux Mint 14/13 and Debian Linux Operating Systems.

1. Preparation for Installation

First, you make sure that your system is up-to-date , if not try to update the system and then install dependencies packages using yum command and apt-get command, before installing Asterisk on your system.
On RHEL/CentOS/Fedora #y u myu p d a t e #y u mi n s t a l lym a k ew g e to p e n s s l d e v e ln c u r s e s d e v e ln e w t d e v e ll i b x m l 2 d e v e lk e r n e l d e v e lg c cg c c c + +s q l i t e d e v e l

Turn Off SELinux by changing the line enforcing to disabled in /etc/selinux/config file.
S E L I N U X = d i s a b l e d

Once you disabled SELinux, you need to reboot the system.

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2. Downloading DAHDI, LibPRI and Asterisk Tarballs

Download the source tarballs, these following commands will download current release of DAHDI 2.6, LibPRI 1.4 and Asterisk 11.
#c d/ u s r / s r c / #w g e th t t p : / / d o w n l o a d s . a s t e r i s k . o r g / p u b / t e l e p h o n y / l i b p r i / l i b p r i 1 . 4 c u r r e n t . t a r . g z #w g e th t t p : / / d o w n l o a d s . a s t e r i s k . o r g / p u b / t e l e p h o n y / d a h d i l i n u x c o m p l e t e / d a h d i l i n u x c o m p l e t e c u r r e n t . t a r . g z #w g e th t t p : / / d o w n l o a d s . a s t e r i s k . o r g / p u b / t e l e p h o n y / a s t e r i s k / a s t e r i s k 1 1 c u r r e n t . t a r . g z

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Next, extract the files from source tarballs using tar command as shown below.
#t a rz x v fd a h d i l i n u x c o m p l e t e c u r r e n t . t a r . g z #t a rz x v fl i b p r i 1 . 4 c u r r e n t . t a r . g z #t a rz x v fa s t e r i s k 1 1 c u r r e n t . t a r . g z

3. Configuring, Compiling And Installing

Go to the each directory from where you have downloaded and extracted the packages and start running the following commands to install DAHDI, LibPRI and Asterisk.
Installing DAHDI. #c d/ u s r / s r c / d a h d i l i n u x c o m p l e t e 2 . 6 . 2 + 2 . 6 . 2 / #m a k e& &m a k ei n s t a l l& &m a k ec o n f i g Installing LibPRI #c d/ u s r / s r c / l i b p r i 1 . 4 . 1 4 / #m a k e& &m a k ei n s t a l l Installing Asterisk

Next, run the configure script will vary depending upon whether your system is 32-bit or 64-bit. In the middle, when menuselect command executes, select your desired options and then hit Save and Exit option and the installation will continuous. Run this command if youre installing Asterisk on a 32-bit OS.
#c d/ u s r / s r c / a s t e r i s k 1 1 . 3 . 0 / #. / c o n f i g u r e& &m a k em e n u s e l e c t& &m a k e& &m a k ei n s t a l l& &m a k es a m p l e s& &m a k ec o n f i g

Run this command if youre installing Asterisk on a 64-bit OS.

#c d/ u s r / s r c / a s t e r i s k 1 1 . 3 . 0 / #. / c o n f i g u r el i b d i r = / u s r / l i b 6 4& &m a k em e n u s e l e c t& &m a k e& &m a k ei n s t a l l& &m a k es a m p l e s& &m a k ec o n f i g

Following are the some Asterisk configuration files and their locations. 1. /etc/asterisk/ configuration files. 2. /var/lib/asterisk/ contains images, firmware, keys, sounds sample files. 3. /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/ contains all loadable modules.

4. Starting DAHDI and Asterisk Services

Enable the DAHDI and Asterisk services at system boot time.
#c h k c o n f i gd a h d io n #c h k c o n f i ga s t e r i s ko n

Start the DAHDI and Asterisk.

#s e r v i c ed a h d is t a r t #s e r v i c ea s t e r i s ks t a r t

5. Connecting to Asterisk CLI

Run the following command to connect to the Asterisk CLI.
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6. Asterisk Console Commands

Its similar to IOS. From Asterisk terminal anytime you can use Tab key or type ? for help or command auto complete.
t e c m i n t * C L I > ! c a l e n d a r c d r c o n s o l e d a t a e v e n t f e a t u r e s i a x 2 a c l c c c e l c o r e d a t a b a s e f a x f i l e i n d i c a t i o n a e l c h a n n e l d e v s t a t e g r o u p a g e n t c l i d i a l p l a n h a n g u p a g i c o n f b r i d g e d n s m g r h e l p a o c c o n f i g d u n d i h t t p

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How to Install Asterisk 11 in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint

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7. Useful Commands from Asterisk CLI

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. restart gracefully Restart Asterisk gracefully. restart now Restart immediately. restart when convenient Restart Asterisk when call is empty. reload Configuration reload. stop gracefully Gracefully Asterisk shutdown. stop now Shutdown immediately. stop when convenient Shutdown Asterisk when call is empty.

8. Command Line Parameters

Following are the available command line parameters of Asterisk.

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9. Reference Link
1. http://www.asterisk.org/
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johnt says: April 3, 2013 at 4:52 pm Better to use yum on centos/fedora seeing as the repo is available for these distros. Reply

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cochtansays: May 11, 2013 at 5:01 pm one important thing is missing PERL, so before reboot step use also this command: yum install perl Good luck to all Asterisk people ;-) Reply

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