It’s been a few years since I rebuilt my home lab. I am hoping to put together a few blog around what it looks like and how it’s setup in hopes that it helps others. Let’s start with my NUC. I generally like to run things that are mostly static on my NUC, things like AD, DNS, etc. However, for this iteration I am going to install Ubuntu on the bare metal and run Asterisk.

To start I created a boot USB using Rufus for the lates Ubuntu Server 24 release. Plugged in a keyboard, monitor, and network and restarted. I used F2 to tell the machine to boot from USB and doing the minimal install and I am up and running with no issues.

dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ hostnamectl
...
Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-85-generic
Hardware Model: NUC7i7DNHE

Now let’s get Asterisk up and running. The majority of the commands came from this great guide.

dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo apt-get install git subversion wget \ 
libjansson-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev autoconf \
automake libxml2-dev libncurses-dev libtool
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ cd /usr/src/
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$sudo wget \
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-22-current.tar.gz

dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo tar zxf asterisk-22-current.tar.gz

dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ cd asterisk-22.5.2/
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo contrib/scripts/install_prereq install
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo ./configure

dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo make menuselect 
#select format_mp3, Save & Exit

dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo make -j2

dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo make install
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo make samples
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo make basic-pbx
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo make config
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo ldconfig
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo addgroup --system asterisk
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo adduser --system --ingroup  asterisk \
--no-create-home --disabled-password asterisk
dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo vi /etc/default/asterisk

Uncomment:
AST_USER="asterisk"
AST_USER="asterisk"

dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo usermod -aG dialout,audio asterisk

dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo chown -R asterisk: \
/var/{lib,log,run,spool}/asterisk /usr/lib/asterisk /etc/asterisk

dmacias@intelnuc7:~$ sudo chmod -R 750 \
/var/{lib,log,run,spool}/asterisk /usr/lib/asterisk \
/etc/asterisk

systemctl enable asterisk
systemctl start asterisk

sudo asterisk -vvvr

Asterisk 22.6.0, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2025, Sangoma Technologies Corporation and others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com>
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
=========================================================================
Connected to Asterisk 22.6.0 currently running on ubuntu01 (pid = 43539)
ubuntu01*CLI>

~david