In this article, I will give an example of installing Asterisk from source code, for example, I needed it to install a new version of Asterisk on Ubuntu Server 22.04, since Asterisk 18 was installed from the default repository, and there were no modules I needed by default, such as Voicemail.
Switch to the root user:
sudo -i
Install the necessary components to install Asterisk:
apt update
apt install wget build-essential git autoconf subversion pkg-config libtool libedit-dev
Download the archive with the required version of Asterisk and unpack it:
cd /usr/src/
wget https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-20-current.tar.gz
tar -zxvf asterisk-20-current.tar.gz
ls
cd asterisk-20.1.0
You can also download from here:
git clone -b 20 https://gerrit.asterisk.org/asterisk asterisk-20
cd asterisk-20/
Install the necessary components for Asterisk (you may have to run several times):
contrib/scripts/install_prereq install
contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh
Let’s prepare the Asterisk code before compilation:
./configure
If you suddenly need to re-run configure, then clear the old cache:
make distclean
./configure
Run menuselect to select which modules and components to install with Asterisk:
make menuselect
You can install sample configurations:
make samples
make basic-pbx
Install Asterisk autorun script and log rotation script:
make config
make install-logrotate
Build and install Asterisk:
make
make install
Let’s create an asterisk user and group, and also specify them in the configuration:
groupadd asterisk
useradd -r -d /var/lib/asterisk -g asterisk asterisk
usermod -aG audio,dialout asterisk
chown -R asterisk.asterisk /etc/asterisk
chown -R asterisk.asterisk /var/{lib,log,spool}/asterisk
chown -R asterisk.asterisk /usr/lib/asterisk
nano /etc/default/asterisk
AST_USER="asterisk"
AST_GROUP="asterisk"
nano /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
runuser = asterisk
rungroup = asterisk
Activate Asterisk autostart at operating system startup and start Asterisk:
systemctl enable asterisk
systemctl start asterisk
systemctl status asterisk.service
An example of connecting to the Asterisk console in debug mode (the more v letters, the more debug data will be displayed):
asterisk -rvv
Module files are located in the /usr/lib/asterisk/modules directory, sound files are usually located in the /var/lib/asterisk/sounds directory, Asterisk plays files of the format that is easiest to process by the CPU, an example can be seen in the table by running the commands:
core show translation
core show translation recalc 60
If you installed PJSIP instead of the SIP module, then for example, instead of the “sip show peers” command, you will need to execute:
pjsip show endpoints
The list of available commands can be viewed as follows:
core show help
See also my articles:
IPTables rules for Asterisk
Installing Asterisk on Ubuntu Server
My other articles about Asterisk