Installation Asterisk on CentOS

The first step that you should make is to you to choose which version of Asterisk you want to install.

If any of those packages are not installed install them by using yum

yum install bison
yum install bison-devel
yum install ncurses
yum install ncurses-devel
yum install zlib
yum install zlib-devel
yum install openssl
yum install openssl-devel
yum install gnutls-devel
yum install gcc
yum install gcc-c++

CentOS Linux Install Core Development Tools Automake, Gcc (C/C++), Perl, Python & Debuggers

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'


Use DVD via yum command, just open /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo and make sure enabled=1. To use this repo, put in your DVD and use it with the other repos too:

yum --enablerepo=c5-media groupinstall Development Tools'


Installing Libpri:

cd /path/to/source/libpri
make
make install

Installing Zaptel:

cd /usr/src/asterisk/zaptel
# if you have a 2.4 kernel you should type just make
make
# if you have a 2.6 kernel you should type make linux26
make linux26 - if you have a 2.6 kernel
make install

Installing Asterisk:

cd /usr/src/asterisk/asterisk
# before making Asterisk you have to install mpg123 package (to be able to play mp3 files for music on hold).
make mpg123
# for Asterisk v1.4 you should start configure script
./configure
make
make install
make samples