voipcowboy

Enjoy….

As root

1. Open your terminal and navigate to the usr/src folder.

cd /usr/src

2. Grab the latest Asterisk source from asterisk.org [1.4.0 is the latest at the time of this writing]

wget http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/asterisk-1.4.0.tar.gz

3. Unroll the tarball.

tar -zxvf asterisk-1.4.0.tar.gz

4. The file will unroll into it’s own directory, when it finishes…

cd /asterisk-1.4.0.tar.gz

5. Run the following commands:

./configure

make

make install

You should see a ton of text fly by as Asterisk is compiled ending with a hot little ascii asterisk illustration.

Now you can start asterisk for the first time [it won’t do much, but if it starts, it’s installed properly] with:

/etc/init.d/asterisk start

It should be followed with a “starting asterisk [ok]” message.

You can access the asterisk console with:

asterisk -r

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