Installing Trixbox 2.0 in CentOS VE

Introduction

Here what I did to installed Trixbox 2.0 in a CentOS VE. I found quite a bit of information scattered over the web and even one in the OpenVZ Forum. Note, my installation don't use any hardware such as Zaptel. I still see a warning about can't load zaptel, but I have still been able to use my VEs. Yes, I have installed several of these.

Basic Steps

Here are the basic steps with details later:

1. Create VE from CentOS Template.
2. Add character device /dev/tty9 to VE
3. Install rpmforge & apt
4. Add DAG repository
5. Install yum
6. Install speex and libspeex-devel
7. Download Trixbox 2.0 tar.gz file (not ISO) and extract to /var/trixbox_load
8. Change to /var/trixbox_load and run install.sh script

  NOTE: You may need to run the script several times.  Just seems like YUM don't 
        install all the packages at the same time.  I am no sure what sup here.

Details Steps

1. Create VE from CentOS Template.
   • eg. vzctl create 204 --ostemplate centos-4-i386-default --config vps-basic
2. Add character device /dev/tty9 to VE
   • eg. vzctl set 204 --devices c:4:9:rw --save
   • NOTE: If you are using zaptel or capi, then you will need to add those devices to the VE
3. Install rpmforge & apt
   • You may check for the most recent release of rpmforge and apt. If you encounter error running rpm, you may need a newer rpm (rpm-4.3.3-18_nonptl.i386.rpm) which u can find in Google.
   1. Intall RPMFORGE
   • SITE="http://dag.wieers.com/packages/rpmforge-release/"
   • rpm -Uvh ${SITE}/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
   1. Install APT
      • STIE="http://dag.wieers.com/packages/apt/"
      • rpm -Uvh ${SITE}/apt-0.5.15lorg3.2-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
4. Add DAG repository for yum
   • rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
   • mkdir -p /etc/yum.repos.d
   • Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo, with:

     [dag]

     name=Dag RPM Repository for Red ht Enterprise Linux

     baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

     gpgcheck=1

     enabled=1

5. Install yum
   1. Try installing yum via apt-get
      • apt-get update
      • apt-get install yum
   2. If that failed, then try doing the easy way. :)
      • rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4
      • SITE=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS

        rpm -Uvh ${SITE}/yum-2.4.3-1.c4.noarch.rpm ${SITE}/libxml2-python-2.6.16-6.i386.rpm ${SITE}/python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.2.1.i386.rpm ${SITE}/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.i386.rpm ${SITE}/rpm-python-4.3.3-18_nonptl.i386.rpm ${SITE}/python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm ${SITE}/centos-release-4-4.2.i386.rpm ${SITE}/sqlite-3.3.3-1.2.i386.rpm

        NOTE: the whole thing is just one long command, use '\' to break it up.

6. Install speex and libspeex-devel
   • rpm -Uvh ${SITE}/speex-1.0.4-4.i386.rpm ${SITE}/speex-devel-1.0.4-4.i386.rpm
7. Download Trixbox 2.0 tar.gz file (not ISO) and extract to /var/trixbox_load
8. Change to /var/trixbox_load
   • mkdir /var/trixbox_load
   • tar zxf trixbox-2.0.tar.gz -C /var/trixbox_load/
9. Run install.sh script
   1. I find that I need to run this script several time, 2 or 3, and that it is best to reboot before running the first time.
      • cd /var/trixbox_load/
      • ./install.sh

Resources - Links where I got my info.

1. http://www.eukhost.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-839.html
2. http://www.trixbox.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7992&forum=1
3. http://www.trixbox.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=thread&topic_id=4622&forum=2&post_id=33831#33831
4. http://helpdesk.peoplehost.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=45&nav=0,6
5. http://wiki.garylaw.net/doku.php?id=technical:unix:linux:yum
6. http://rudyegenias.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/installing-yum-in-bayanihan-linux-server-2006/
7. http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3 (use this to find any rpm)
8. http://www.trixbox.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8352&forum=1&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&start=10&