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

You can also compile asterisk and use the latest version.

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

#./install.pl

Go to the asterisk 1.6.1.1 folder and launch the install script

#./install.pl

Asterisk Installation on Lenny

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