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1. The document provides instructions for installing Asterisk 1.8.9 on CentOS 6, including downloading and compiling Asterisk from source, installing dependencies like DAHDI and codecs, and configuring Asterisk. 2. It describes setting up the Asterisk user and group, installing apps like app_swift for text-to-speech integration and php for scripting. 3. The steps also cover obtaining a fax license, installing the fax modules, and testing the basic Asterisk installation.

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Installing Asterisk 1 PDF

1. The document provides instructions for installing Asterisk 1.8.9 on CentOS 6, including downloading and compiling Asterisk from source, installing dependencies like DAHDI and codecs, and configuring Asterisk. 2. It describes setting up the Asterisk user and group, installing apps like app_swift for text-to-speech integration and php for scripting. 3. The steps also cover obtaining a fax license, installing the fax modules, and testing the basic Asterisk installation.

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Installing Asterisk 1.8.

9 on
Centos 6

It has been a while since I installed Asterisk from scratch and I like to keep my skills
sharpened. So for this exercise, I grabbed a base Centos 6 Virtual Box image and
installed Asterisk from sources. There might be a few steps not fully explained below,
but this should get you going.
First step is to set static IP by edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Then get
the latest updates via:
yum update
Get Asterisk Source:
cd /usr/src
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-
1.8.9.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf asterisk-1.8.9.0.tar.gz
Install dependencies/libraries:
yum install unixODBC unixODBC-devel mysql-server mysql-devel nano ncurses-devel
patch gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel libtiff-devel libtermcap-devel bison flex curl-
devel libtool-ltdl-devel gmime-devel wget make svn libxml2-devel
ln -s /usr/src/kernels/<your kernel version> linux
Install iksemel libs for Google Talk/Jabber:
Install rpm-forge repo via:
rpm -Uhv http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-
2.el6.rf.i686.rpm
yum install iksemel-devel
Install Speex (required by Speex codec and RedHat/Centos rpms miss certain files):
cd /usr/src
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/speex/speex-1.2rc1.tar.gz
tar xvzf speex-1.2rc1.tar.gz
cd speex-1.2rc1
./configure
make
make install
Install Cepstral Swift (this requires a license, if you dont have one or dont want to use
Cepstral Text to Speech engine, you can skip it):
cd /usr/src
wget http://downloads.cepstral.com/cepstral/i386-linux/Cepstral_Allison_i386-
linux_5.1.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf Cepstral_Allison_i386-linux_5.1.0.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/Cepstral_Allison_i386-linux_5.1.0
./install.sh
/opt/swift/bin/swift reg-voice customer-name xxx company-name xxx voice-
name Allison license-key xxx
Configure libs:
Edit /etc/ld.so.conf and insert:
/opt/swift/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib
Save the file, then run ldconfig
Install Dahdi:
Get and install latest dahdi-tools and dahdi-linux
* dahdi-linux: kernel modules
* dahdi-tools: userspace tools
cd /usr/src
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux/releases/dahdi-linux-
2.6.0.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-tools/releases/dahdi-tools-
2.6.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf dahdi-linux-2.6.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf dahdi-tools-2.6.0.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/dahdi-linux-2.6.0
make
make install
cd /usr/src/dahdi-tools-2.6.0
./configure
make menuselect
make all
make install
make config
nano /etc/dahdi/modules (comment out hardware cards, unless you have them)
chkconfig dahdi on
Install Asterisk 1.8.9:
cd /usr/src/asterisk-1.8.9.0
contrib/scripts/get_ilbc_source.sh
contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh
./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make menuselect (here select the options you want, youll be fine with defaults in most
cases, I added couple of missing ones)
make
make install
make progdocs
make samples
make config
chkconfig asterisk on
Create Asterisk user/group and edit permissions:
groupadd -g 5060 asterisk
adduser -c Asterisk Telephone Server -d /var/lib/asterisk -g asterisk -u 5060 asterisk
chown recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk
chown recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/log/asterisk
chown recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/run/asterisk
chown recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/spool/asterisk
chown recursive asterisk:asterisk /usr/lib/asterisk
chmod recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /var/lib/asterisk
chmod recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /var/log/asterisk
chmod recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /var/run/asterisk
chmod recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /var/spool/asterisk
chmod recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /usr/lib/asterisk
Edit /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf:
astrundir => /var/run/asterisk
runuser = asterisk ; The user to run as
rungroup = asterisk ; The group to run as
Edit /etc/sysconfig/asterisk:
Remove comment out
AST_USER=asterisk
AST_GROUP=asterisk
Install app_swift:
Appswift is at
http://76.164.171.235/gf/project/app_swift/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package
_id=7, it adds app_swift, which integrates with Cepstral TTS and makes creating
prompts in your dialplan easy.
cd /usr/src
wget http://76.164.171.235/gf/download/frsrelease/110/142/app_swift-2.0.1-
ast1.8.tar.gz
tar -xvzf app_swift-2.0.1-ast1.8.tar.gz
cd app_swift-2.0.1-ast1.8
make
make install
Install php5 for scripting:
yum install php php-cli
Install g729 and g723 codecs:
cd /usr/src
wget http://asterisk.hosting.lv/bin/codec_g723-ast18-gcc4-glibc-pentium4.so
wget http://asterisk.hosting.lv/bin/codec_g729-ast18-gcc4-glibc-pentium4.so
cp codec_g729-ast18-gcc4-glibc-pentium4.so /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/codec_g729.so
cp codec_g723-ast18-gcc4-glibc-pentium4.so /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/codec_g723.so
Asterisk Fax:
Order free license key from digium at store.digium.com first.
Then:
cd /usr/src/
mkdir astfax
cd astfax
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/register/x86-32/register
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/fax/benchfax/x86-32/benchfax-1.1.0-
x86_32
chmod 500 register
chmod 500 benchfax-1.1.0-x86_32
./benchfax-1.1.0-x86_32
This will tell you which version of Asterisk Fax to use. Then go to the fax selector
at http://www.digium.com/en/docs/FAX/faa-download.php
Pick the one suggested by bench fax, in our case (a 32 bit i686 Linux):
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/fax/res_fax_digium/asterisk-
1.8.4/x86-32/res_fax_digium-1.8.4_1.3.0-i686_32.tar.gz
tar xvzf res_fax_digium-1.8.4_1.3.0-i686_32.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/astfax/res_fax_digium-1.8.4_1.3.0-i686_32
cp res_fax_digium.so /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/
cp res_fax_digium.conf /etc/asterisk/
Now you can test your basic installation via
asterisk -vvv -c
If all is well, you can run
service asterisk start
to run it as a service. I have my config files from previous installs, so I first copied them
back to /etc/asterisk and I was good to go.

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