asterisk users - Apr 2023 - Intro and question

On Thursday 06 April 2023 at 15:48:24, Steve Matzura wrote:
> this is the first time I have attempted a
> from-scratch installation and setup on my own.
...<so far, so good>...
> Then the weeds started to appear, and I was off into them.
> 
> The first was the mention of Alembic.
> Reading on, I found this, regarding an SQL database:
> SQL? Database? Where ... what ...
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Well, my first question would be "are you intending to use Asterisk
Realtime
features (ie: configurations in database tables instead of text files) in this 
installation?"

If you are, then you do need to install a few more packages on your Debian 
system, but if not, then there is no reason to pay any attention at all to 
anything to do with Alembic, Realtime, SQL etc.


Antony.

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Anthony,


No, I had no intention of doing any of those things, for I know not what 
they are or why I would need or want to be doing them. Maybe I should 
have just stuck with the original idea of installing from Debian distro. 
I'm exploring the phreaknet option now. If I come up with a running 
system, I'm just going to leave it that way and work with it as it is.


On 4/6/2023 10:35 AM, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Thursday 06 April 2023 at 15:48:24, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
>> this is the first time I have attempted a
>> from-scratch installation and setup on my own.
> ...<so far, so good>...
>
>> Then the weeds started to appear, and I was off into them.
>>
>> The first was the mention of Alembic.
>> Reading on, I found this, regarding an SQL database:
>> SQL? Database? Where ... what ...
>> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> Well, my first question would be "are you intending to use Asterisk
Realtime
> features (ie: configurations in database tables instead of text files) in
this
> installation?"
>
> If you are, then you do need to install a few more packages on your Debian
> system, but if not, then there is no reason to pay any attention at all to
> anything to do with Alembic, Realtime, SQL etc.
>
>
> Antony.
>