Install Asterisk 1.4 and Asterisk GUI in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server and Debian Etch

1. Preparing your system

Update your Ubuntu 6.06 LTS or Debian Etch necessary packages to be able to install Asterisk 1.4 from source.

2. Updating your system

Before downloading the update, make sure your apt source list is updated.

Download the following packages:

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential automake autoconf bison flex libtool libncurses5-dev libssl-dev subversion
This procedure is tested and working in Debian Etch. Ubuntu 6.06 and Debian Etch packages is similar because Ubuntu is a Debian based distribution, check http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros for more info about debian based distro.

3. Compiling and Installing Asterisk from source

To compile Asterisk follow the instructions here up to Step no.6.

Procedure of Asterisk installation from source in CentOS is same in Ubuntu 6.06 and Debian Etch, the only difference among them is the package format.

4. Loading Asterisk GUI and zaptel modules

After the installation of Asterisk 1.4 and Asterisk GUI, load your ztdummy module, type the following command in the console:

modprobe zaptel
modprobe ztdummy

And to add ztdummy and Asterisk in startup scripts, edit the file /etc/rc.local and add the following line:

modprobe zaptel
modprobe ztdummy
asterisk –g 

To load your Asterisk GUI, run the command "asterisk -g" in the console and point your browser to http://your-server-ip:8088/asterisk/static/config/cfgbasic.html

After you logon, you can now configure your Asterisk PBX using a nice GUI interface.

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