[SOLVED] Asterisk Missing Dependencies

[calzon65]

I'm experimenting with Asterisk 12.3.0 on a BeagleBone Black and downloading from the AUR. I made a new/clean install of Alarm and installed Asterisk with pacman -Sy asterisk, but when I tried to launch asterisk, I got the following error message:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
asterisk: error while loading shared libraries: libxslt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory')
Maybe I used the wrong flags to originally download/install Asterisk, if so please let me know, but to clear the error message I simply ran pacman -Sy libxslt. So I wanted to report this to the devs incase this library should have been "packaged" with the Asterisk download.

Edit: As help to others, the following is what I had to load to get Asterisk 12.3.0 to run on my BeagleBone Black with Alarm (3.8.13-25-ARCH). There may be other support libraries/modules necessary, but for now I have a basic configuration working making on-net calls (not to the PSTN)

pacman -Sy asterisk
pacman -Sy libxslt
pacman –Sy pjproject

[WarheadsSE]

Sounds like a dependency missing from the package itself. Asterisk is one of those packages we pre-compile from the AUR, since the 'aur' repo you see is not the whole AUR.

[calzon65]

I went ahead and posted a note to the Asterisk entry in the AUR suggesting that libxslt and pjproject be added. From what I have read on the Asterisk website and other searching, it appears the current Asterisk version (12.X.X) requires these packages to run (e.g., they are mandatory). At the very least, if others here are installing the current version of Asterisk from the ARM AUR, they will know they need to load other packages.

[WarheadsSE]

Agreed.

[calzon65]

I spent most of the day learning the basics of makepkg, so I'm new to PKGBUILDs and did not know the proper procedure for making changes in the archlinuxarm github for AUR packages, and I did not want to change anything, assuming I even could make changes.

I managed to download the latest package of asterisk from the AUR and successfully created a new asterisk package based on the current version of Asterisk 12.3.2 for my BeagleBone Black. The version of asterisk in the ARM github is 12.3.0

In my asterisk PKGBUILD I solved the problem of the missing libxslt and pjproject mentioned at the beginning of this post and which are required for runtime. Here are the pertinent lines from my PKGBUILD. I was afraid to attempt to make changes to anything in github for fear of screwing something up.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pkgver=12.3.2
pkgrel=2
depends=('alsa-lib' 'speex' 'popt' 'libvorbis' 'curl' 'libxml2' 'jansson' 'libxslt' 'pjproject')')

[moonman]

You can make changes and then submit a pull request. If something is wrong we will not merge it so you don't have to worry about it. You can't directly modify our repository.

[calzon65]

Thanks moonman, I'd like to "give back" a little to the Alarm effort and figure making small improvements like this is one way to contribute. I will work on that today.

Edit: "the README" link on the ArchLinux ARM Developers-Contributing page in the second paragraph of the Requesting Changes to our PKGBUILDs or Submitting New PKGBUILDs section does not work.

[calzon65]

For those who wish to install Asterisk on their ARM system, pacman -Sy asterisk now installs the minimum dependencies to get you up and running. I will continue to make comments/posts about Asterisk-12 in my combined Asterisk-12 / FreePBX-12 post listed in the link below. For now I marked this post [SOLVED].

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