This tutorial will guide you through the installation of Asterisk from https://www.asterisk.org/ on nixOS Latest.
Before you start, you need to make sure that your nixOS is up-to-date and that you have sudo privileges or you are logged in as a root user.
Go to the https://www.asterisk.org/ website and download the latest stable version of Asterisk.
Next, install the following dependencies using nixOS package manager:
sudo nix-env -i ftdi_sio dahdi_linux asterisk
In this step, you will configure Asterisk by editing a configuration file. Open the configuration file with your preferred text editor:
sudo nano /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
Modify the settings according to your needs, then save the file by pressing "Ctrl+X," confirming "Y," and pressing "Enter."
Now that you have configured Asterisk, you can start it using the following command:
sudo systemctl start asterisk
To make sure that Asterisk starts automatically at boot time, run the following command:
sudo systemctl enable asterisk
To test Asterisk, use the following command to check its status:
sudo systemctl status asterisk
If everything was set up correctly, you should see that the service is running.
You have now installed and set up Asterisk on your nixOS Latest system. You can now explore Asterisk's features and functionality to create a powerful communication system.
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