Asterisk Installation on Lenny

Asterisk installation on Lenny can be performed with ease using Aptitude. This brings you Asterisk version 1.4.20. Since this has a graphical GUI manager, it might be wise to add X to your server.

Compile Asterisk

If you have a previous version of asterik first Backup config files /ets/asterisk and then uninstall it. From the original source files

#make uninstall-all

Get the latest version from http://www.asterisk.org/downloads

#cd /usr/src

Get asterisk version 1.6.1.1

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.6.1.1.tar.gz

Get the DAHDI linux drivers

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux/releases/dahdi-linux-2.2.0.1.tar.gz

Get the DAHDI linux tools

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-tools/releases/dahdi-tools-2.2.0.tar.gz

Get the ISDN drivers (not sure if its still needed even if you don't have ISDN)

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/libpri/releases/libpri-1.4.10.1.tar.gz

Get the Addon

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-addons-1.6.1.0.tar.gz

Unpack all the tarballs

Go to the asterisk 1.6.1.1 folder and launch the install script

# ./configure

I had a C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check and needed to install g++

#apt-get install g++

#make menuselect (OPTIONAL)
#make
#make install
#make samples
#make config

+---- Asterisk Installation Complete -------+
+                                           +
+    YOU MUST READ THE SECURITY DOCUMENT    +
+                                           +
+ Asterisk has successfully been installed. +
+ If you would like to install the sample   +
+ configuration files (overwriting any      +
+ existing config files), run:              +
+                                           +
+                make samples               +
+                                           +
+-----------------  or ---------------------+
+                                           +
+ You can go ahead and install the asterisk +
+ program documentation now or later run:   +
+                                           +
+               make progdocs               +
+                                           +
+ **Note** This requires that you have      +
+ doxygen installed on your local system    +

Compile DAHDI

Go to the dahdi folder

# make 

# make install

###################################################
###
### DAHDI installed successfully.
### If you have not done so before, install the package
### dahdi-tools.
###

Go to dahdi-tools First run the configure script or you get a error "no rule to make target 'makeopts'"

#./configure
# make
# make install 

###################################################
###
### DAHDI tools installed successfully.
### If you have not done so before, install init scripts with:
###
###   make config
###
###################################################

Go to the DAHDI tools folder

# make config

install -D dahdi.init /etc/init.d/dahdi
/usr/bin/install -c -D -m 644 init.conf.sample /etc/dahdi/init.conf
/usr/bin/install -c -D -m 644 modules.sample /etc/dahdi/modules
/usr/bin/install -c -D -m 644 xpp/genconf_parameters /etc/dahdi/genconf_parameters
/usr/bin/install -c -D -m 644 modprobe.conf.sample /etc/modprobe.d/dahdi
/usr/bin/install -c -D -m 644 blacklist.sample /etc/modprobe.d/dahdi.blacklist
/usr/sbin/update-rc.d dahdi defaults 15 30
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/dahdi ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K30dahdi -> ../init.d/dahdi
    /etc/rc1.d/K30dahdi -> ../init.d/dahdi
  /etc/rc6.d/K30dahdi -> ../init.d/dahdi
  /etc/rc2.d/S15dahdi -> ../init.d/dahdi
  /etc/rc3.d/S15dahdi -> ../init.d/dahdi
  /etc/rc4.d/S15dahdi -> ../init.d/dahdi
  /etc/rc5.d/S15dahdi -> ../init.d/dahdi
DAHDI has been configured.

List of detected DAHDI devices:

pci:0000:04:05.0     wctdm24xxp+  d161:8005 Wildcard TDM410P

run 'dahdi_genconf modules' to load support for only
the DAHDI hardware installed in this system.  By
default support for all DAHDI hardware is loaded at
DAHDI start.
darktower:/usr/src/dahdi-tools-2.2.0#