asterisk users - Apr 2023 - Intro and question

If you just want something easy to use out of the box, install the 
FreePBX distro.

Cheers,

j

On 4/6/23 11:08 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
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On Thursday 06 April 2023 at 18:29:43, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
> If you just want something easy to use out of the box, install the
> FreePBX distro.
Given that Steve originally said "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
got the impression that he was not so much looking for something easy to use, 
but rather looking forward to learning about how to "do Asterisk" for
himself.

Antony.

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