I quess i may be installing a new distro of free PBX soon.
I’ll give you a brief summary of what i have done so that your responce will direct me If i Have caused any harm to My system or if I can correct this and
learn a few things about Asterisk 13 with the ability to toggle back and forth between
PBX 12 distro running asterisk 11 and asterisk 13.
I have installed Asterisk 13 on a system that is currently running pbx 12/asterisk 11.
My intention was to take 13 for a test drive and learn a litttle about straight asterisk.
We all now 13 is not yet stable with pbx 12. as I was not wanting to test that pottion
So You may not be supprised but once i loaded pbx 12 the Apply button was red
at that point i new i had my work cut out for me.
The error i recieve
[FATAL] Unable to connect to Asterisk Manager from /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf, aborting
You should have never installed from source. We have “asterisk-version-switch” for this exact reason. You can change asterisk versions on the fly and it takes all of 1 minute.
I just read that page about 5 min ago and switched back to 11
but still have issues.
Would you say i will now have to reinstall everything and that if i would like to try 13
to just run asterisk-version-switch to be a safe way?
I’m not sure every one has their duck’s in a row here @Jeff_504 never said he was using “the distro”, my read is that he wasn’t, so the version-switch thing probably wouldn’t work for him as it is almost certainly specific to “the distro”.
One can download the source for most any version of asterisk past 1.8, compile and appropriately install it, FreePBX should pick up WTF you did. That would not disturb your working FreePBX in any way apart from a couple of 1.8+ trivia like callback.
If you get that wrong, then you can download the tarball of various FreePBI and run the install script, add the -h switch and you will see you have options to reinstall , deinstall, select your level etc. (perhaps not in the latest version unfortunately)
Either way take an off-site backup of your system before you “mess” with anything as a precaution.
Please DO NOT confuse FreePBX with the “FreePBX distro”, so far FreePBX works as advertised on most lini systems.