Install Asterisk on CentOS and Debian from repositories

I am starting to work with Asterisk, so as a first thing I tried to install it from repositories both on Debian and CentOS.

Let's start with Debian.

Once you have installed Debian

Just enter as root:

apt-get install asterisk

Then configure your sip.conf and extensions.conf as minimum, then edit the file:

/etc/default/asterisk

and change the option to start asterisk at boot from "no" to "yes"

Now on CentOS

First install CentOS

Then create this file

/etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo

with this content on it.

[atrpms]
name=CentOS $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1

Once that is done enter:

yum install asterisk

You will this output:

Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package asterisk.i386 1:1.4.9-43.el5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libpq.so.4 for package: asterisk
--> Processing Dependency: libtonezone.so.1.0 for package: asterisk
--> Processing Dependency: libspeex.so.1 for package: asterisk
--> Processing Dependency: libodbc.so.1 for package: asterisk
--> Processing Dependency: libpri.so.1.0 for package: asterisk
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package unixODBC.i386 0:2.2.11-7.1 set to be updated
---> Package zaptel.i386 1:1.4.4-37.el5 set to be updated
---> Package postgresql-libs.i386 0:8.1.9-1.el5 set to be updated
---> Package libpri1.i386 1:1.4.1-17.el5 set to be updated
---> Package speex.i386 0:1.0.5-4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
asterisk i386 1:1.4.9-43.el5 atrpms 10 M
Installing for dependencies:
libpri1 i386 1:1.4.1-17.el5 atrpms 57 k
postgresql-libs i386 8.1.9-1.el5 updates 196 k
speex i386 1.0.5-4 base 206 k
unixODBC i386 2.2.11-7.1 base 832 k
zaptel i386 1:1.4.4-37.el5 atrpms 2.0 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 6 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 13 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/6): unixODBC-2.2.11-7. 100% |=========================| 832 kB 00:23
(2/6): zaptel-1.4.4-37.el 100% |=========================| 2.0 MB 01:01
(3/6): postgresql-libs-8. 100% |=========================| 196 kB 00:06
(4/6): libpri1-1.4.1-17.e 100% |=========================| 57 kB 00:03
(5/6): asterisk-1.4.9-43. 100% |=========================| 10 MB 04:19
(6/6): speex-1.0.5-4.i386 100% |=========================| 206 kB 00:07
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: speex ######################### [1/6]
Installing: libpri1 ######################### [2/6]
Installing: postgresql-libs ######################### [3/6]
Installing: zaptel ######################### [4/6]
Installing: unixODBC ######################### [5/6]
Installing: asterisk ######################### [6/6]

Installed: asterisk.i386 1:1.4.9-43.el5
Dependency Installed: libpri1.i386 1:1.4.1-17.el5 postgresql-libs.i386 0:8.1.9-1.el5 speex.i386 0:1.0.5-4 unixODBC.i386 0:2.2.11-7.1 zaptel.i386 1:1.4.4-37.el5
Complete!

In this case you just need to configure

/etc/asterisk/sip.conf

and

/etc/asterisk/extensions.conf

according to your needs, and you are done.

On both systems you can start or stop asterisk with

/etc/init.d/asterisk [start, stop, restart]