How to install Asterisk on Fedora 16

Because the installation of Asterisk via Yum didn’t work out-of-the-box for me, I have decided to install it from source. The instructions to compile and install Asterisk from source from the Asterisk wiki is pretty much straight-forward except for a couple of hiccups, which I encountered. So here is a slightly modified version of their installation instruction that worked for me on Fedora 16:

Install the compiler and system libraries

sudo yum install gcc, gcc-c++, openssl, ncurses, ncurses-devel, newt, libxml2, libxml2-devel, kernel-devel, kernel-devel make

We also need to install SQLite3 in order to avoid seeing this message later on:

configure: WARNING: *** Asterisk now uses SQLite3 for the internal Asterisk database.
configure: WARNING: *** Please install the SQLite3 development package.

So let’s install SQLite3:

sudo yum install sqlite, sqlite-devel

We also need to install doxygen for the Asterisk documentation:

sudo yum install doxygen

Download, build, and install libpri

Execute the following as root:

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/libpri/libpri-1.4.12.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libpri-1.4.12.tar.gz
cd libpri-1.4.12
make
make install

Download, build, install, and start DAHDI

Execute the following as root:

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux-complete/dahdi-linux-complete-2.6.0+2.6.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf dahdi-linux-complete-2.6.0+2.6.0.tar.gz
cd dahdi-linux-complete-2.6.0+2.6.0
make
make install
make config
chkconfig dahdi on
service dahdi start

Download, build, install, and start Asterisk

Execute the following as root:

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-10.3.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf asterisk-10.3.0.tar.gz
cd asterisk-10.3.0
./configure
make menuselect
make
make install
make samples
make progdocs
make config
chkconfig asterisk on
asterisk -vvvvc

Notes: This set of instructions has been tested to also work on Fedora 14 and CentOS 5.7.

Sources:

• https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Installing+Asterisk+From+Source
• https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/System+Requirements
• https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Compiler
• https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/System+Libraries
• https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Building+and+Installing+LibPRI
• https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Building+and+Installing+DAHDI
• http://techspotting.org/how-to-install-asterisk-on-centos-5/