Preparing your system for Asterisk2Billing
This chapter aims to help you to prepare you system for Asterisk2Billing. Choose an Operating System / Distribution
Know Os working with A2billing ( tested)
• Fedora Core 2,3,4,5
• Debian 3.01
• Centos
The Asterisk PBX was originally designed for the Linux operating system. Due to the popularity of Asterisk, it has since been ported to BSD and Mac OS X. Nevertheless, Digium PSTN cards are designed to work on Linux i386. The use of Linux is recommended.
I personally love Fedora :D but it's a question of preferences... Install Asterisk & have it up running
Information is from the VoIP-Info Wiki : http://voip-info.org Get Asterisk from precompiled binary packages
There are precompiled binary packages available for download, created by non-Digium contributors:
• RPM packages for Linux : http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+RPM
• DEB packages for Linux : http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+DEB
• Asterisk.pkg install package for MacOS X : http://www.astmasters.net/stuff/Asterisk.pkg.tgz
For those who are using Trixbox, you can follow the instructions here - TrixboxInstall
Additionally, Trixbox user who wants to use the SVN Trunk can upgrade to MySQL5 with the instructions at TrixboxMysql
Get Asterisk from sources & compile
Please check out : http://www.asterisk.org Commands to get the current snapshot from the release branch of SVN:
# svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.2 asterisk-1.2
# svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/zaptel/branches/1.2 zaptel-1.2
# svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/libpri/branches/1.2 libpri-1.2
Now, you have to compile the sources. cd /usr/src/libpri make && make install cd /usr/src/zaptel make && make install cd /usr/src/asterisk make && make install
Links for Asterisk installation
• Asterisk OS Platforms
• 10-minute guide to Asterisk
• Step-by-step Installation
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Links: Normally, you should get something like this httpd (pid 7486 3710 3709 3708 3707 3706 3705 3704 3703 3700) is running..