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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:

By default Asterisk generates CDR records in a CSV files located in /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv directory. Asterisk can also store CDR records in a database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL database as an alternative to CSV files. If your CDR records are stored in a database, you can install a web-based CDR analyzer to easily manage and analyze your CDR records like Asterisk-stat by http://areski.net.

Here are some features of Asterisk-stat

Minimum Requirements

To install Asterisk server in your computer, please consider the minimum hardware and software requirements. These are the minimum requirements.

Operating system:

Having a fully functional PBX system is not a big problem anymore. Thanks to Asterisk, you can now have a working PBX installed on your PC running GNU/Linux without spending a lot of money.

What is Asterisk?

Asterisk is an open source Private Branch Exchange (PBX) that runs on Linux, BSD and Mac OSX. It was created by Mark Spencer of Digium in 1991. Like any PBX, it allows a number of attached telephones (extensions) to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched telephone network (PSTN).

The basic Asterisk software provides all of the features you would expect from a proprietary PBX including: voicemail, conference calling, interactive voice response (IVR), and automatic call distribution (queue). These are just a few of the features that it can provide, you can view a list of supported features at Asterisk's Web site.