Help installing ASL at VULTR

App_rpt-users
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All, I have installed and reinstall ASL in a few cloud servers with no issues. Now I had to switch providers and my new provider does not have the same OS options. My new options are Bulleye or Buster.

What I have used to install the HUB before is not working. I get a DKMS error with one OS and a BITRAY error with the other.

Please remember I am NOT a linux guru just playing one to help out my club.

Here is what worked in the past:

cd /tmp
sudo ufw disable
apt install git -y
apt install curl -y
wget http://apt.allstarlink.org/repos/ASL_Repository/install-allstarlink-repository
chmod 777 *
apt-get update -y
apt-get install gnupg -y
./install-allstarlink-repository
apt-get install linux-headers-uname -r -y
apt-get update -y
apt-get install allstarlink -y
apt-get install apache2 -y
apt install php libapache2-mod-php -y
systemctl restart apache2

If something needs to change above, please provide examples.

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Which version are you trying to install?
1.01 or 2.0 beta 6

And what is your base operating system debian 9 10 11 or something else

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The on-line clouds offer Debian 10 x64 (buster) or Debian 11 x64 (Bulleye)

The version I have always installed is whatever comes with the standard:

wget http://apt.allstarlink.org/repos/ASL_Repository/install-allstarlink-repository

Should I be using a beta version instead? If so what is the link to use that?

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Using new install of Debian 11 X64 on old dual core PC.
Glad to know I’m no alone. Tried many times to install ASL using that link, except I get HTTP failure - no response - 404 not found. Am I doing something as well?

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If you look at the install script that you are downloading, the first thing it does is add the ASL_Repository “stretch” to your apt sources list. This means that the package you are trying to install is only maintained for stretch. It wouldn’t be expected to work on buster or bullseye. The errors you are getting are likely due to differences in the kernel version.

Try the ASL 2.0.0 instructions here: GitHub - AllStarLink/ASL-Asterisk: Version of Asterisk used for AllStarLink
You can see from the repo install instructions that the package is meant for buster.

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Cant say what is best.
I find little to no difference in versions for cloud use.
https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/ASL_INSTALL_ON_VULTR
Default using image is debian 9 and asl 1.01 but this install works from image. Easy

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Hi Darrell,

I also had a few issues when using debian 10. I am struggling to find the script I used, but I am pretty sure this one worked:

https://dvswitch.groups.io/g/allstarlink/message/1811

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Check the wiki downloads page. I think the URL you have is not quite right…
https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Main_Page

With the beta be sure to note the instructions to update the repo key.

If you’d rather install ASL 1.01, with Vultr you can upload an IOS file and install from that. Of course you’ll have an older OS and ASL but it will still run well.

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Thanks everyone for your input. I have some new ideas and will report back hopefully soon.

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Hi everyone, I wanted to close the loop since so many people commented on this.

First I was forced to move my three servers from VIRMACH because of lack of support from them. When I set them up years ago, I was running Ubuntu 16 server which was not supported as a install option when moving to VULTR.

Because of the comments here, I did try the beta v2 allstar but I had some issues but also because of a link provided above, I found I could do a custom install of old OS’s.

I found that running Ubuntu 18 allowed allstar to install without error but would not start correctly, using my above script. However my server install also requires dvswitch and also hblink. I could not get hblink to install in ubuntu 18 so I again did a custom install of Linux Ubuntu 16.04 Server X86 64 and all four packages installed, compiled and run as they should.

I then setup two other Linux Ubuntu 16.04 Server X86 64 servers running allstar, dvswitch, ysf systems

I am sure if I understood python better I could have used a new OS but I only stayed at a holiday inn one night :slight_smile:

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