Installing Asterisk On Synology Login

On this page.Asterisk is a free and Open Source framework for building communications applications. Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a VoIP communications server. Asterisk powers IP PBX systems, VoIP gateways, conference servers and is used by small businesses, large businesses, call centers, carriers, and governments worldwide. Today we will install Asterisk on Debian. All required packages will be installed via apt, but Asterisk will be installed from source.

Let's see how to install Asterisk on Debian. There are many versions of Asterisk available on their website, but the latest is 13 with LTS (Long Term Support).

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So we will download it from source and install in this tutorial.First of all we will install the build environment: apt-get install build-essentialThis command will install the basic packages that are needed on a new server to install Asterisk 13.Now we will install some more dependencies which are directly dependent on Asterisk 13: apt-get install openssl libxml2-dev libncurses5-dev uuid-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev pkg-config libjansson-devThis command will install the libraries which Asterisk will be needing to work and for CDR's there are many options available. At the moment, we will install SQLite also as we haven't decided yet that we will use Mysql or SQLite.Now we will download asterisk from their website by the following command: wget we have successfully downloaded Asterisk 13 on our server.To install it from the source which we have downloaded we have to extract it.