Pre Conditions:
Before installing FreeSwitch you must run these commands.
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#sudo apt update
#sudo apt install -y gnupg2 wget lsb-release [Optional]
#sudo apt upgrade |
Make sure that the [deb cdrom: ...] is commentd out in the source.list file in /etc/apt directory.
Also make sure that the repositories listed in the "/etc/apt/sources.list" are for the latest release of Debain. (Currently 12.2 'Bookworm')
If you make any changes to the "sources.list" file, make . Below are the dependencies for Debain Bookworm. If you have a different version please add accordingly. Make sure to run the update command again.
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deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main |
Update your system
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#sudo apt update |
Go into super user mode to get rid of permission issues.
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#su |
For latest version of debain such as Book worm we need to follow the following steps as well.
Before we install the freeswitch we need to clone the Sofia-sip and SpandDSP in /usr/src directory. In case git is not installed please install the git by running 'apt install git' command.
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git clone https://github.com/freeswitch/sofia-sip
git clone https://github.com/freeswitch/spandsp |
Now add all these dependencies. Some these dependencies may not be available in future or some latest version would be available. Please exclude it from the command and add the latest one.
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sudo apt-get -y install build-essential subversion automake autoconf wget libtool libtool-bin l ibncurse5-dev libssl-dev libsndfile1-dev
sudo apt-get install git libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat1-dev libssl-dev libtiff5-dev libx11-dev unixodbc-dev python-dev zlib1g-dev libzrtpcpp-dev libasound2-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libperl-dev libgdbm-dev libdb-dev python-dev uuid-dev bison autoconf g++ libncurses-dev
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In /usr/src run the following commands one by one
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./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make install |
Go to signal wire website and login and then make a token for the installation of freeswitch. If you already have a token please proceed.
Now, run the following commands one by one to add Freeswitch repositories to your apt directory
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After these commands run the update command and the install command to install Freeswitch.
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#sudo apt update #apt-get install -y freeswitch-meta-all |
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Restart the Freeswitch and configure it.
In case of any problem a complete documentation can be found here for the installation of freeswitch.