How to Install Asterisk Right

There is a lot of very good howto’s explaining Asterisk installation. Take a look at this brief summary (Debian), but you can take a look at 1, 2 or 3 (in spanish).

Be careful with iptables and selinux. If needed, edit /etc/selinux/config and write:

SELINUX=disabled
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

Then, disable iptables

iptables -F
iptables-save > /etc/iptables.up.rules

or configure it to allow SIP (port 5060) and RTP (port 10000-20000) if you plan to use these protocols.

Now upgrade your system

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

And install packages needed for compilation of asterisk

apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` gcc g++ make libnewt-dev libncurses5-dev openssl libssl-dev zlib1g-dev

Download source files and untar. Asterisk 1.6 is explained, but 1.8 looks similar.

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.6.2.13.tar.gz
tar zxvf asterisk-1.6.2.13.tar.gz

If you will use FreePBX, then install asterisk-addons

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-addons-1.6.2.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf asterisk-addons-1.6.2.2.tar.gz

Now compile

cd asterisk-1.6.2.13
make clean && ./configure --disable-xmldocs && make && make install && make config

If needed

make samples