I've been using Asterisk, including administering and maintaining it, in
some aspect since 2003, but this is the first time I have attempted a
from-scratch installation and setup on my own. I'm following the
instructions in the ePub edition of the book "Asterisk, the Definitive
Guide, Fifth Edition," published by O’Reilly Media, Inc. in 2019, for
Asterisk version 16 on a fresh install of Dedbian 11.6 (Bull's Eye).
Backround:
In Chapter 3, "Installing Asterisk," in the section "Asterisk Packages,"
the book says, and I quote from the ePub:
There are Asterisk packages that can be installed using package
management systems such as yum or apt-get . You are encouraged to use
them once you are familiar with Asterisk.
So, thinking I was familiar enough with the product, I indeed used
aptp[get to install.
# apt-get install asterisk
I got lots of dependencies, plus the core, everything went swimmingly,
no errors. In a minute or two, I had Asterisk 1:16.28.0~dfsg-0+deb11u2.
Great.
A little further along down the book, there's an "Initial Configuration"
section detailing some changes to modules.conf and logger.conf, and a
few ownership change commands to certain files and directories. All went
exactly according to the documentation.
Then the weeds started to appear, and I was off into them.
The first was the mention of Alembic. This was not installed as part of
the apt-get installation mentioned above, but I expected whatever
Alembic could do, I could do manually, it'd just take longer and be more
tedious. NO problem. I'd get through it.
Reading on, I found this, regarding an SQL database:
Log into the database now, and review all the tables that have been created:
SQL? Database? Where ... what ... I got no SQL when I installed from the
Debian package management system, nor was there any mention of it in the
book with regard to complete package installation. Come to think of it,
on some of the old implementations on which I'd worked in the past, I
don't remember seeing SQL as a part thereof.
Time to put the brakes on, find out what's going on, or what I did wrong.
So, my question is, what is the correct approach to supplementing or
correcting the standard Debian package installation, or if there isn't
one, should I remove what I installed and stqart over, or even deeper,
re-generate the Debian system (which I can do in less than fifteen
minutes) and build from sources according to the book?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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