If you're looking to set up an open-source communication server for your enterprise, Asterisk is one of the most popular options available. In this tutorial, we'll take you through the steps to install Asterisk on Fedora CoreOS Latest.
Before starting the installation, make sure that your Fedora CoreOS is up-to-date with the latest patches and upgrades. To update your system, run the following commands as a sudo user:
sudo rpm-ostree update
sudo rpm-ostree upgrade
This command will update your system with the latest patches and upgrades.
To begin the installation process, you first need to download the Asterisk source code to your system. You can do this by using the wget command-line tool. Run the following command in your terminal:
sudo wget https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-version.tar.gz
Replace version in the above command with the desired version of Asterisk you want to install.
Once the package is downloaded, extract it using the following command:
sudo tar -xzf asterisk-version.tar.gz
Replace version with the version of Asterisk you downloaded previously.
After extracting the package, navigate to the Asterisk directory by running the following command:
cd asterisk-version
Replace version with the version of Asterisk you downloaded previously.
Now that you're in the Asterisk directory, run the following command to configure and compile the software:
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
This command will take some time to run, depending on the speed of your system.
To start Asterisk, you need to create a user and group that Asterisk will run under. Run the following command to create a new user and group:
sudo groupadd asterisk
sudo useradd -r -d /var/lib/asterisk -g asterisk asterisk
sudo usermod -aG audio,dialout asterisk
sudo chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/{lib,log,run,spool}/asterisk
sudo chmod -R 750 /var/{lib,log,run,spool}/asterisk
These commands will create a new user and group for Asterisk, and give them the necessary permissions to run the software.
Now that you've installed and configured Asterisk, you can start the service with the following command:
sudo systemctl start asterisk
Asterisk should now be up and running on your Fedora CoreOS system.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install and run the Asterisk communication server on Fedora CoreOS Latest. By following these steps, you can have your own open-source communication server up and running in no time.
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