Lab 1 Asterisk 16 on Ubuntu 18.04
These labs are part of the training Complete Asterisk Training at voip.school
In this Lab we will learn how to install Asterisk step by step.
Step 1: Install Ubuntu 18.04 Server in a virtual machine (you may use 32 or 64bits), for the examples I have used the 32 bit version. We have used Virtual Box for this training.
you may download the image from http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04
The Linux installation is out of the scope of this training. Linux basic knowledge is prerequisite.
Step 2: Install the dependencies
apt-get update
apt-get install bison wget openssl libssl-dev libasound2-dev libc6-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev libnewt-dev libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gcc g++ make perl uuid-dev git subversion libjansson-dev unixodbc-dev unixodbc-bin unixodbc autoconf libedit-dev
Step 3: Download the source code
cd /usr/src
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-16-current.tar.gz
tar -xzvf asterisk-16-current.tar.gz
Step 4: Compile Asterisk
Note: Since Ubuntu 18, it is not possible anymore to use wildcards on the command cd. So you have to pass the complete name of the Asterisk directory in this lab after decompressing the files using tar. This is a new behavior of the bash shell. Please change the lab below according to the name of the directory decompressed. It will change when the Asterisk project releases a new version (ex. asterisk-16.1.0, asterisk-16.1.1, asterisk-16.2.0....)
cd asterisk-16-<complete_with_the_name_where_asterisk_was_decompressed>
./configure\
Step 5 (optional): Add the application Macro (Useful if you will follow the video rather then the text labs)
make menuselect
Select the application macro to compile.
Step 5a (optional): If you are going to use Asterisk 18, 19, please add the channel driver chan_sip. For Asterisk 16 it is installed by default.
Step 6: Compile Asterisk
make && make install && make config && make samples
Step 7: Test if Asterisk is running
asterisk –vvvvvvvvgc
Step 8: Stop the Asterisk process using:
cli>core stop now
Step 9: To start Asterisk in background use:
asterisk
Step 10: To connect to the Asterisk Console running on background use
asterisk -r
Solving problems
The most common error on the process is to forget one of the dependencies