Asterisk Installation on CentOS

kindly make sure System is Fully updated.

#yum update  

After update reboot the machine

For 64bit follow this tweak.

#yum remove *.i386

#yum update

reboot Machine.


Before Install make sure all dependencies installed.


For 64bit System.

[root@rk tmp]# yum install gcc.x86_64 gcc-c++.x86_64 make.x86_64 wget.x86_64 subversion.x86_64 libxml2-devel.x86_64 ncurses-devel.x86_64 openssl-devel.x86_64 vim-enhanced.x86_64

For 32bit

[root@rk tmp]#yum install gcc gcc-c++ make wget subversion libxml2-devel ncurses-devel openssl-devel vim-enhanced



Download Latest Asterisk from offical Site

[root@rk tmp]# wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.8-current.tar.gz

Extract Bundle

[root@rk src]# tar -xvzf asterisk-1.8-current.tar.gz

Now time to run install_prereq this will install allrequired dependecies/PKG

This script can be found under below dir.

/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.20.1/contrib/scripts


[root@rk scripts]# ./install_prereq
./install_prereq: a script to install distribution-specific prerequirement

Revision: $Id: install_prereq 360138 2012-03-21 14:51:14Z jrose $

Usage: ./install_prereq:                    Shows this message.
Usage: ./install_prereq test                Prints commands it is about to run.
Usage: ./install_prereq install             Really install.
Usage: ./install_prereq install-unpackaged  Really install unpackaged requirements.
[root@rk scripts]# ./install_prereq test
#############################################
## test: test mode.
## Use the commands here to install your system.
#############################################
yum install -y pkg list

[root@rk scripts]# ./install_prereq install
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

Will take time..Enjoy ur coffee.

Complete!
#############################################
## install completed successfully
#############################################

Time to Build & Install Astersik.

Change Dir to
/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.20.1

[root@rk asterisk-1.8.20.1]# ./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
config.status: creating config.h
configure: Menuselect build configuration successfully completed

[root@rk asterisk-1.8.20.1]#make
+--------- Asterisk Build Complete ---------+
 + Asterisk has successfully been built, and +
 + can be installed by running:              +
 +                                           +
 +                make install               +
 +-------------------------------------------+


[root@rk asterisk-1.8.20.1]#make install


+---- 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    +
 +-------------------------------------------+


[root@rk asterisk-1.8.20.1]#make  sample

Note :- make samples created sample configuration files in the default directory i.e /etc/asterisk/


Done




P.S :- KEEP IT SIMPLE.