This Howto is to install Asterisk on a fresh Debian “Etch” system.
After download a netinstall image of Debian 4.0r1 and configure localization, language, partitions and so on, in the final steps, debian should now be asking you what packages you want installed.
Choose base system only.
After finish installation and first reboot, login with root and:
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
reboot
aptitude install ssh ntp
From here, the next steps were done from a ssh session with putty client.
Compiling New Custom Kernel *** Optional ***
aptitude install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2 build-essential
cd /usr/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.23.12.tar.bz2
tar xjf linux-2.6.*
ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.23.12 /usr/src/linux
cd /usr/src/linux
Copy the current kernel configuration to /usr/src/linux
make clean && make mrproper
cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
make menuconfig
In the configuration menu, we select “Load alternate configuration…” and choose the config file that we have copy in the /usr/src/linux directory. /usr/src/linux/.config
We are going to modify some parameters in the kernel configuration:
In the subsection “Processor type and features” we check:
“Enable IRQ balancing” is disabled
“Timer frequency” change the value 250 Hz by 1000 Hz.
“High Resolution Timer Option” and “HPET Timer Support” as built-in.
For users with NVidia SATA drives unchek “Paravirtualization Support”.
And under “Library Routines” subsection, “CONFIG_CRC_CCITT” must be enabled.
When we had made this changes we save the configuration and exit.
Building the new .deb kernel and headers packages :
make-kpkg clean
fakeroot make-kpkg –initrd –append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers
After the compilation will be two .deb packages under directory /usr/src/
Install the new packages.
cd /usr/src
dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.23.12-custom_2.6.23.12-custom-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.23.12-custom_2.6.23.12-custom-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
reboot
Test the new kernel is loaded.
uname -a
The output must be something similar to “Linux asterisk 2.6.23.12-custom“
*** Finish *** Optional *** Compiling Custom Kernel
Go for dependencies…
aptitude install build-essential libcurl3-dev libvorbis-dev libspeex-dev unixodbc unixodbc-dev libiksemel-dev flex xsltproc
aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` g++ libncurses5-dev libnewt-dev libusb-dev subversion git-core
Downloading and untarring…
cd /usr/src
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/zaptel/zaptel-1.4-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/libpri/libpri-1.4-current.tar.gz
wget http://www.misdn.org/downloads/mISDN.tar.gz
wget http://www.misdn.org/downloads/mISDNuser.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/asterisk-addons-1.4.5.tar.gz
tar xvzf asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz && tar xvzf zaptel-1.4-current.tar.gz && tar xvzf libpri-1.4-current.tar.gz && tar xvzf mISDN.tar.gz && tar xvzf mISDNuser.tar.gz && tar xvzf asterisk-addons-1.4.5.tar.gz
Installing Zaptel
cd /usr/src/zaptel-1.4*
./install_prereq test
./install_prereq install
./configure
make
make install
make config
modprobe ztdummy
Installing Libpri
cd /usr/src/libpri-1.4*
make && make install
Installing mISDN
Note: The current version (1.1.7) not compile with the last kernel (2.6.23.12). The (2.6.18.10) is tested that works.
cd /usr/src/mISDN
make
make install
cd /usr/src/mISDNuser/
make && make install
Configuring…
mISDN scan
mISDN config
This creates the file /etc/mISDN.conf which you should review and/or edit.
vi /etc/mISDN.conf
If everything looks good, going to start mISDN
mISDN start
and check everything is right,
misdnportinfo
Running on startup…
/usr/sbin/update-rc.d mISDN defaults 15 30
Installing Asterisk
cd /usr/src/asterisk-1.4*
./configure
The next step is not mandatory. For install core and extra sounds in different languages:
make menuselect
select the core-sounds you would like to play and extra sounds. Exit with “x” to save.
make
make install
make samples
make config
asterisk -vvvc
stop now
echo “ztdummy” >> /etc/modules
Note: If you make a mistake and/or fail compilation, you need to run:
make clean then ./configure and make install again.
Going to reboot for test the system startup is correct.
reboot
asterisk -r
exit
Install Asterisk-Addons
cd /usr/src/asterisk-addons*
./configure && make && make install
make samples
Install Asterisk-GUI
If you have asterisk config files (no new install), backup it…
cp -r /etc/asterisk /etc/asterisk.bak
Download and install Asterisk-GUI
cd /usr/src
svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk-gui/trunk asterisk-gui
cd /usr/src/asterisk-gui
./configure && make && make install
make samples
Some tweaks to configuration files…
cat << EOF >/etc/asterisk/http.conf
[general]
enabled=yes
enablestatic=yes
EOF
cat << EOF >/etc/asterisk/manager.conf
[general]
displaysystemname = yes
enabled = yes
webenabled = yes
port = 5038
;httptimeout = 60
bindaddr = 0.0.0.0
[admin]
secret = admin
read = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,config
write = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,config
EOF
Checking configuration…
make checkconfig
asterisk -r
reload
exit
Try, configure and enjoy your new system… with admin/admin login or your setup config…
http://IPADDRESS:8088/asterisk/static/config/setup/install.html
http://IPADDRESS:8088/asterisk/static/config/cfgbasic.html