How to install Asterisk on Ubuntu Linux

Make sure your server is up-to-date :-

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get upgrade

Install all required packages and dependencies :-

• sudo apt-get install build-essential
• apt-get install git-core subversion libjansson-dev sqlite autoconf automake libxml2-dev libncurses5-dev libtool

Download Asterisk :-

• cd /usr/src/
• sudo wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-13-current.tar.gz
• sudo tar -zxvf asterisk-13-current.tar.gz

Compile Asterisk :-

• cd /usr/src/asterisk-13.23.1
• sudo ./contrib/scripts/install_prereq install

Once it is completed the output will look like this :-

Current status: 7 (-2) upgradable.
#############################################
## install completed successfully
#############################################

Run the ./configure script which will check your system for missing libraries and dependencies :-

• sudo ./configure 

The output of the successful completion should look like this :-

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     configure: Package configured for:
     configure: OS type  : linux-gnu
     configure: Host CPU : x86_64
     configure: build-cpu:vendor:os: x86_64 : pc : linux-gnu :
     configure: host-cpu:vendor:os: x86_64 : pc : linux-gnu :

Start the compilation process using the make command :-

• sudo make

Once its completed you will see the following message which means that the Asterisk was successfully compiled :-

+--------- Asterisk Build Complete ---------+
+ Asterisk has successfully been built, and +
+ can be installed by running:              +
+                                           +
+                make install               +
+-------------------------------------------+

Run the make install:-

• sudo make install

After the successfully Asterisk installation you will see the following message :-

+---- 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:              +
+                                           +
+ For generic reference documentation:      +
+    make samples                           +
+                                           +
+ For a sample basic PBX:                   +
+    make basic-pbx                         +
+                                           +
+                                           +
+-----------------  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    +
+-------------------------------------------+

After that install the Asterisk sample configuration files :-

• sudo make samples

Install the initialization script :-

• sudo make config

You can also install the logrotation script :-

• sudo make install-logrotate

You will see the following output indicating :-

asterisk.service - LSB: Asterisk PBX
 Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/asterisk; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
 Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-07-18 03:36:23 CDT; 5s ago
   Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 15427 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/asterisk start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 CGroup: /system.slice/asterisk.service
                └─15440 /usr/sbin/asterisk

Enable the Asterisk service :-

• systemctl enable asterisk

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