Switching to Asterisk 1.8 on AsteriskNOW

[qwell]

Now that Asterisk 1.8 has been released, I've made packages available for AsteriskNOW. The upgrade isn't as easy as a `yum update`, but it's not too difficult.

From a Linux command line, run:
# yum shell

This enters the shell mode of yum. Once in the shell, enter the following.
# remove asterisk16 asterisk16-core
# install asterisk18-core asterisk18
# ts solve
# ts run

At this point, the package list will be calculated, and you should be presented with the option to finish the transaction. If everything looks correct, hit 'Y' and let it complete. You can then 'exit' the shell mode. Congratulations! You've just successfully installed Asterisk 1.8.

Note: If you've installed them, you may see asterisk16-addons or asterisk16-<insert module name> packages being removed. You can add the asterisk18 equivalents to the 'install' command above, and they will also be upgraded.

Note 2: To get FreePBX to support Asterisk 1.8, you'll need to install freepbx-2.7.0-7 at a minimum. The easiest way to get this, is to `yum update` before running the above.

[chocobn]

Hello Qwell and thanks a lot for this tip.

Is it the same for asterisk 1.4 ?
like this
From a Linux command line, run:
# yum shell

This enters the shell mode of yum. Once in the shell, enter the following.
# remove asterisk asterisk-core
# install asterisk18-core asterisk18
# ts solve
# ts run

There will not have incompatibilities ?
Thank you

[qwell]

Just replace all the instances of "16" with "14", and it should work fine.

[zfield]

One thing I noticed: once the server is rebooted, the title will show AsteriskNOW 1.7.1 (at least in my case). However, if you log into the webui and mouseover the OK beside Asterisk (under Server status), it should tell you the correct version. After the upgrade, mine shows 1.8.0.

[silverglade00]

AsteriskNOW version is not the same as Asterisk version. Just like Centos 5.5 doesn't include kernel-5.5. Just different numbering schemes.

[eebng_1422]

hi all,
i need to say that the above method doesn't work with me, so i downloaded the tar files and i need some document talk about the installation.

[mark.dasovic]

any reason why after the upgrade to 1.8 I wouldn't have the gtalk.conf or jabber.conf files under /etc/asterisk ? I also appear to be missing the chan_gtalk and res_jabber - not sure if these are part of a separate rpm package from the asterisk18 upgrade or not. everything on my system came back up correctly including my existing trunks and extensions, but I see no way to configure it for google voice at this point.

thoughts?

[msgreenf]

I just installed 1.8 this way into my AsteriskNow and the AsteriskGui no longer works. what can I check? I am a noob and just starting to play with this.

[sgroat]

any reason why after the upgrade to 1.8 I wouldn't have the gtalk.conf or jabber.conf files under /etc/asterisk ? I also appear to be missing the chan_gtalk and res_jabber - not sure if these are part of a separate rpm package from the asterisk18 upgrade or not. everything on my system came back up correctly including my existing trunks and extensions, but I see no way to configure it for google voice at this point.

thoughts?

I'm really interested in this too. Are there any plans for Google Voice support in FreePBX or AsteriskGUI? I'm looking to create a system where users can registers there own Google Voice trunks themselves for a IP PBX in a residential higher education application for instituions with Google Apps for Education. Any help would be great.

[spittlbm]

My Asterisk GUI died, too. It only shows the source of the html and not the redered output.

[deadhead]

any reason why after the upgrade to 1.8 I wouldn't have the gtalk.conf or jabber.conf files under /etc/asterisk ? I also appear to be missing the chan_gtalk and res_jabber - not sure if these are part of a separate rpm package from the asterisk18 upgrade or not. everything on my system came back up correctly including my existing trunks and extensions, but I see no way to configure it for google voice at this point.

thoughts?

I'm really interested in this too. Are there any plans for Google Voice support in FreePBX or AsteriskGUI? I'm looking to create a system where users can registers there own Google Voice trunks themselves for a IP PBX in a residential higher education application for instituions with Google Apps for Education. Any help would be great.

Can anyone verify that chan_gtalk and res_jabber will be included in a future rpm build?
The rpms that qwell referred to above do not include support for Google Voice.

Many thanks,
Rob.

[gpeters]

My Asterisk GUI is dead too when upgrading to 1.8

Any ideas?

[VMikhelson]

Qwell,

Thank you for the document.

Unfortunately need to report two (2) post-upgrade issues.

1. ooh_323 stopped placing outgoing calls, incoming calls are terminated after 32 seconds, DTMF does not function, h323_log is empty. Opened new issue: https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18542

2. FOP is not fully functional. It does not show an extension status. Trying to reach the developer.

Thank you,
Vladimir

Edited 01/18/2011.
Item #2 appeared to be related to Asterisk 1.8 not being backwards compatible with 1.6 regarding reporting its peers status. See http://www.freepbx.org/forum/freepbx/us ... ment-34031

[malcolmd]

HI , I need information about Polycom IP 331 and what is the difference between Polycom IP 331 and Polycom IP 5000 PoE.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume that you're not simply astro-turfing. I'm also going to remove the link from your post.

The IP 331 is a desktop telephone with a handset. The IP 5000 is a desktop conference phone with no handset. The IP 5000 supports G.722, the IP 331 does not. The IP 331 is cheaper.

[jjku]

Ok.. just tried to go from 1.4 to 1.8.

Did everything and it downloaded all the packages. The after the transaction test, there was a transaction check error.

file /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/en/core-sounds-en.txt from install of asterisk-sounds-core-en-gsm1.4.20-1_centos5.noarch conflicts with file from package asterisk-sounds-core-en-ulaw-1.4.19-1_centos5.noarch

Not sure what to do now.

[rmontgomery]

To get the latest versions of the sounds packages, run 'yum update' first, before starting the yum shell.

[rmontgomery]

My Asterisk GUI is dead too when upgrading to 1.8

The Asterisk GUI has not been fully updated to manage Asterisk 1.8. Visit https://issues.asterisk.org and choose the "Asterisk-GUI" project to see the open issues and to get involved.

Unlike other ISO distributions for Asterisk, AsteriskNOW does not force the user to a particular GUI, or to any GUI at all. It's therefore useful to provide the Asterisk 1.8 package as an option for non-GUI users, but this option is not included in the installation menu. When the Asterisk-GUI is to date for Asterisk 1.8 and we're ready to recommend this pairing to newcomers, we'll spin a new ISO for AsteriskNOW.

[jlug38]

I'm running AsteriskNow 1.7 on a 64bit computer and I'm trying to upgrade asterisk to 1.8.
The asterisk version is 1.6.2.11
I've downloaded the asterisk 1.8.3 and I've uploaded to my /usr/src directory.
I get the following error:
checking build system type...........x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type...........x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc.........no
checking for cc..........no
checking for cl.exe..........no
configure: error: in "/usr/src/asterisk-1.8.3':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

[brett.vitaz]

My Asterisk GUI is dead too when upgrading to 1.8

The Asterisk GUI has not been fully updated to manage Asterisk 1.8. Visit https://issues.asterisk.org and choose the "Asterisk-GUI" project to see the open issues and to get involved.

Unlike other ISO distributions for Asterisk, AsteriskNOW does not force the user to a particular GUI, or to any GUI at all. It's therefore useful to provide the Asterisk 1.8 package as an option for non-GUI users, but this option is not included in the installation menu. When the Asterisk-GUI is to date for Asterisk 1.8 and we're ready to recommend this pairing to newcomers, we'll spin a new ISO for AsteriskNOW.

Are you saying that the Asterisk GUI is not developed along side the Asterisk software? Everyone who upgrades from 1.6 to 1.8 is going to have a broken GUI?

[wb6vpm]

When I try this, I get the following error:

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Error: Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/app_voicemail.so from install of asterisk18-voicemail-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-voicemail-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386
  file /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/app_dahdibarge.so from install of asterisk18-dahdi-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-dahdi-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386
  file /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/app_dahdiras.so from install of asterisk18-dahdi-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-dahdi-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386
  file /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/app_flash.so from install of asterisk18-dahdi-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-dahdi-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386
  file /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/app_meetme.so from install of asterisk18-dahdi-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-dahdi-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386
  file /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/app_page.so from install of asterisk18-dahdi-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-dahdi-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386
  file /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/chan_dahdi.so from install of asterisk18-dahdi-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-dahdi-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386
  file /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/codec_dahdi.so from install of asterisk18-dahdi-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-dahdi-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386
  file /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/res_timing_dahdi.so from install of asterisk18-dahdi-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-dahdi-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386
  file /usr/share/man/man8/asterisk.8.gz from install of asterisk18-doc-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-doc-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386
  file /usr/share/man/man8/astgenkey.8.gz from install of asterisk18-doc-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-doc-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386
  file /usr/share/man/man8/safe_asterisk.8.gz from install of asterisk18-doc-1.8.7.0-2_centos5.i386 conflicts with file from package asterisk-doc-1.6.2.21-1_centos5.i386

Error Summary
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Any ideas?

[wb6vpm]

OK, i was able to figure out how to update to 1.8 here:
[url]forums.digium.com/posting.php?mode=reply&f=14&t=75822&sid=656c73d0e159876ac2d81bd945bc47ad[/url]

which told me to run this:

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yum update --enablerepo=asterisk-1.8

[jeanne19]

i tried 1.8 i got errors .. does it have to be give errors ? im sick of seing errors

[malcolmd]

i tried 1.8 i got errors .. does it have to be give errors ? im sick of seing errors

Nice post.

[renatop]

has anyone reached a solution yet for the missing jabber and gtalk modules? Is there any way to download them over asterisknow or asterisk 1.8 after upgrade?

[jasonromo]

Sounds like you should just checkout the latest code from svn. Then you can compile all of the modules you need.

Jason