Debian Resources

Asterisk Installation Guide
This tutorial refers to:
Asterisk version 1.4.11
asterisk-addons-1.4.2
libpri-1.4.2
zaptel-1.4.5.1

tested on the GNU/Linux Debian Etch 4.0 release 0 distribution.

First follow the tutorial Basic Net Installation.(time approx. 20 minutes)

Let's get started...
Here are the steps...

• Satisfying Asterisk dependencies

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) bison openssl libssl-dev libeditline0 libeditline-dev libedit-dev gcc make g++ mc php5-cli

• Downloading and extracting Asterisk

mkdir /usr/src/asterisk
cd /usr/src/asterisk

wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.4.20.1.tar....
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/asterisk-addons-1.4.6....
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/libpri/releases/libpri-1.4.4.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/zaptel/releases/zaptel-1.4.10.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf asterisk-1.4.20.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf asterisk-addons-1.4.6.tar.gz
tar zxvf libpri-1.4.4.tar.gz
tar zxvf zaptel-1.4.10.1.tar.gz

• Compiling and installing of Zaptel

cd zaptel-1.4.10.1
./configure
make menuselect
Choose the hardware you want to configure. In our case we only choose ztdummy for timing
make
make install
make config
after edit
nano /etc/default/zaptel
comment out all modules but ztdummy
modprobe zaptel
modprobe ztdummy
nano /etc/zaptel.conf
add these lines and save:
loadzone = us
defaultzone = us

• Compiling and installing of libpri

cd ..;cd libpri-1.4.4
make
make install

• Compiling and installing of Asterisk

cd ..;cd asterisk-1.4.20.1
./configure
make
make install
make samples
make config

• Compiling and installing of Asterisk-addons

cd ..;cd asterisk-addons-1.4.6
./configure
make
make install
make samples

• Autostart of zaptel on boot

Follow the Linux autoexec.bat and add this command: /etc/init.d/zaptel start

• Reboot and verify

reboot
asterisk -r
You should get:
[...]
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
=========================================================================
Connected to Asterisk 1.4.20.1 currently running on asterisk1 (pid = 2022)
Verbosity is at least 3
-- Remote UNIX connection
asterisk1*CLI>

To exit CLI type exit
To see if Zaptel is ok... run this command:
lsmod|more
and you should see
[...]
ztdummy__________5000________0
zaptel____________181924______1__ztdummy
crc_ccitt___________2240________1__zaptel
[...]

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