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 commented 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. Below are the dependencies for Debain Bookworm. If you have a different version please add accordingly. Make Make sure to run the update command again.
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deb#deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main deb#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main deb#deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main deb#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main |
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Go into super user mode to get rid of permission issues.
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#su |
For the latest version of debain Debian 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 the 'apt install git' command.
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git#git clone https://github.com/freeswitch/sofia-sip git#git clone https://github.com/freeswitch/spandsp |
Now add all these dependencies. Some of these dependencies may not be available in the future or some the latest version would versions will be available. Please exclude it from the command and add the latest one.
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sudo#sudo apt-get -y install build-essential subversion automake autoconf wget libtool libtool-bin l ibncurse5libncurse5-dev libssl-dev libsndfile1-dev sudo#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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./bootstrap.sh ./configure make install |
Go to the signal wire website and login and then make a token for the installation of freeswitch. If you already have a token please proceed.
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#$TOKEN=pat_8Errev5k19bRCnmsGdJSxGEs [In case you don't have your token please get one from signalwire website] #wget --http-user=signalwire --http-password=$TOKEN -O /usr/share/keyrings/signalwire-freeswitch-repo.gpg https://freeswitch.signalwire.com/repo/deb/debian-release/signalwire-freeswitch-repo.gpg #echo "machine freeswitch.signalwire.com login signalwire password $TOKEN" > /etc/apt/auth.conf #chmod 600 /etc/apt/auth.conf #echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signalwire-freeswitch-repo.gpg] https://freeswitch.signalwire.com/repo/deb/debian-release/ `lsb_release -sc` main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/freeswitch.list #echo "deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signalwire-freeswitch-repo.gpg] https://freeswitch.signalwire.com/repo/deb/debian-release/ `lsb_release -sc` main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/freeswitch.list |
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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.
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