During a recent project I found out; that Ubuntu does not have the latest package for Asterisk PBX server. So the only way to get Asterisk 1.8 is to compile it from scratch. So I am going to show you how to compile and install Asterisk 1.8 properly from source.
The following worked flawlessly on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x86:
The first step is to login as root or su as root, whichever you choose. You will need to install a few things before you install.
apt-get install cvs build-essential automake autoconf bison flex libtool libncurses5-dev libssl-dev libgsm1 libgsm1-dev libxml2-dev build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
Then you will need to download the Asterisk 1.8 tar.gz
cd /usr/src wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.8.10.0.tar.gz
Unzip and untar it:
tar -zxvf asterisk-1.8.10.0.tar.gz
Let’s make something:
cd asterisk-1.8.10.0 ./configure
Wait then:
make all
Wait more and then:
make install make config
Start it up:
/etc/init.d/asterisk start
If you did it correctly everything should just work! You can confirm this by doing:
root@asterisk:/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.10.0# asterisk -r asterisk*CLI> sip show peers Name/username Host Dyn Forcerport ACL Port Status 0 sip peers [Monitored: 0 online, 0 offline Unmonitored: 0 online, 0 offline] asterisk*CLI>