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What Installing VICIdial Actually Involves
A plain tour of the moving parts a fresh VICIdial install needs: the telephony engine, the web app, the database, the keepalive crontab, and a carrier to dial out.
Read postInstalling VICIdial: The Complete Guide
What installing VICIdial actually involves end to end: the software stack, install routes, hardware, registering the server in Admin, conf files, and going live.
Read postInstalling VICIdial from the ViciBox ISO
The ViciBox ISO bundles the OS, Asterisk, and VICIdial into one prebuilt image. Here is what it includes, how the install flow works, and when the ISO is the right call.
Read postInstalling VICIdial from Scratch on Ubuntu
Prerequisites, pulling the source, compiling Asterisk, running the install script, and the Ubuntu-specific gotchas that trip up a from-scratch VICIdial build.
Read postInstalling VICIdial from Scratch on Debian
How a from-scratch Debian build differs from Ubuntu: package names, defaults, and the same compile-Asterisk-then-install flow, with the Debian-specific snags called out.
Read postOperating System and Hardware Requirements for VICIdial
Which operating systems VICIdial supports, how to size CPU, RAM, and disk for your agent count, and why a dedicated box matters for a dialer.
Read postThe VICIdial install.pl Script, Step by Step
A walkthrough of what the VICIdial install script does: the prompts it asks, the database it builds, the scripts it copies, the crontab, and the conf files it writes.
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