Installation Guide

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Prerequisite Hardware Minimums

Asterisk can be very processor-intensive, due to its use of the CPU to perform Digital Signal Prosessing (DSP). If you are building a complex, high-usage system, this is extremely important to understand. However, for the purposes of building your first Asterisk PBX, you can use any Intel-compatible (x86) machine, they can by a 300MHz Pentium with 256 memory. Essentially, if you can install and run Fedora Core on it, it should be suitable for your first Asterisk install. If you planing to install a PBX using E1/T1 or BRI Gateway, then better take Debian Linux.

Comiling Asterisk on Linux

Note. Follow this install order: libpri, zaptel, asterisk

After download and extract the tarball into /usr/src/asterisk

~#cd /usr/src/asterisk

Installing libpri

~#cd /usr/src/asterisk/libpri
~#make clean
~#make
~#make install

Installing zaptel

~#cd /usr/src/asterisk/zaptel
~#make clean

Note. If you are using kernel 2.6 enter the following command '#make linux26', before doing '#make install'.

~#make install

Installing Asterisk

~#cd /usr/src/asterisk/asterisk
~#make clean
~#make

Note: If you want to use a mp3 files for music-on-hold enter the following command '#make mpg123', before ran '#make install'.

~#make install

Note. If this the first installation perform 'make samples' to install sample configuration files.