How to install asterisk 16 on centos 7

Install Asterisk 16 on CentOS 7

Before you start executing Asterisk install commands on your CentOS 7 server, make sure all the package son the system are up to date.

sudo yum -y update

Set Hostname:

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname pbx.example.com

Add EPEL repository

sudo yum  -y install epel-release

Set SELinux  in Permissive Mode by running the commands below:

sudo setenforce 0
sudo sed -i 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*/\SELINUX=permissive/' /etc/selinux/config

Then follow the steps below to install and configure Asterisk 16 on your CentOS 7 / Fedora server.

Step 1: Install Asterisk 16 PBX dependencies

The initial step when setting up Asterisk is to install all required dependencies.

sudo yum -y install wget vim  net-tools

You also need to install Development Tools group packages.

sudo yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"

The other packages that you need to install are:

sudo yum -y install libedit-devel sqlite-devel psmisc gmime-devel ncurses-devel libtermcap-devel sox newt-devel libxml2-devel libtiff-devel audiofile-devel gtk2-devel uuid-devel libtool libuuid-devel subversion kernel-devel kernel-devel-$(uname -r) git subversion kernel-devel crontabs cronie cronie-anacron wget vim

Step 2: Download and Install Jansson

Jansson is a C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data. Download and install it on CentOS 7 server by running the commands below:

cd /usr/src/
git clone https://github.com/akheron/jansson.git
cd jansson
autoreconf  -i
./configure --prefix=/usr/
make && make install

Step 3: Download and Install PJSIP

PJSIP is a free and open source multimedia communication library written in C language implementing standard based protocols such as SIP, SDP, RTP, STUN, TURN, and ICE. Clone the project from Github, then compile and install.

cd /usr/src/ 
export VER="2.10"
wget https://github.com/pjsip/pjproject/archive/${VER}.tar.gz
tar -xvf ${VER}.tar.gz
cd pjproject-${VER}
./configure CFLAGS="-DNDEBUG -DPJ_HAS_IPV6=1" --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-shared --disable-video --disable-sound --disable-opencore-amr
make dep
make
make install
ldconfig

Step 4: Download and Install Asterisk

Now that we have all dependency packages installed, we should be ready to download and install Asterisk 16 on CentOS 7

cd /usr/src/

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-16-current.tar.gz

tar xvfz asterisk-16-current.tar.gz

cd asterisk-*

./configure –libdir=/usr/lib64

make menuselect

sudo contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh

make

make install

make samples

make config

ldconfig