By DarKnesS_WolF AKA Sherif Nagy This Article Licensed Under GFDL

Please note this how to work in progress, and for Asterisk 1.6.X

Okay I'll try to make this mini-how-to as simple as possible, It will be like a kick start for anyone interested in getting Asterisk running.

We will start by downloading and compiling asterisk:-

Downloading:

You can get asterisk binaries from your GNU/Linux distribution repository or the source code from Asterisk Official website

1. we will need Asterisk-1.6.X the main asterisk package
2. we will need Asterisk-Addon-1.6.X which has some adds on for asterisk like bluetooth channel and mysql support for CDR.
3. we will need Dahdi-linux-2.0.X  used to be zaptel which has the zap based cards drivers and modules which we will use for the analog interface and for the timing in asterisk hopefully in next version asterisk will not need dahdi as timing source for iax2 and meetme application.
4. we will need also Dahdi-tools-2.0.X  which includes some applications for dahdi installation.
5. we will need libpri-1.4.X which also good to be in hand for supporting T1/E1 interfaces (optional) but recommended to install.

Compiling:

Before we start we need to install some requirements I always install the headers and the development packages for mysql, postgresql, iksemel “for japper support” and openssl in case I wanted to use any of this features with asterisk later on also Dahdi will require the kernel source and kernel headers we also might need bison, ncurses and libnewt. Also make sure you have GCC, G++ and make installed, then we will start by extracting and compiling:

Libpri-1.6.X

tar zxvf libpri-1.6.X.tar.gz
cd libpri-1.6.X
make

Then become root

su -
make install

Dahdi-linux-2.0.X

tar zxvf dahdi-linux-2.0.X
cd dahdi-linux-2.0.X
make

and become root

su -
make install

Dahdi-tools-2.0.X

tar zxvf dahdi-tools-2.0.X
cd dahdi-tools-2.0.X
./configure

if you want to add or remove some tools then compile

make menuselect
make

and become root

su -
make install

then to install some scripts and sample configurations file

make config

Asterisk package

tar zxvf asterisk-1.6.X.tar.gz
cd asterisk-1.6.X
./configure

chose the sound packages, channels and applications you need then compile

make menuselect
make

be root

su -
make install
make samples
make config

Asterisk-addon package

tar zxvf asterisk-addon-1.6.X.tar.gz
cd asterisk-addon-1.6.X
./configure

add / remove some more application via menuselect option and compile

make menuselect
make

then be root and execute make install

su -
make install
make samples

and You are done with asterisk compiling.. Arabic version of this howto will be avilabe soon.

Dissection should be in the forums.