Hi. I've been working with Asterisk for a few month now with great results. I'm very happy with this product. I hope I can be of help in the future of this project. Right now I'm having some problems installing it in a new server. I wont bore you with details because finally the solution to my problem was clean and elegant and it came from a guy in a Linux mailing list. Here is my question. My first install experience was quit a headache. I downloaded the sources from Digium, make them and after that make install them. Before that, I had to install all the dependencies bison, ncurses, zlib,gcc...and all there devels packages. After that, libpri, dahdi and finally Asterisk. I did it the first time for a server with Fedora 12. Took a while but it is running now. Then I decided to install in a new server. My project is geting bigger so, why not ? This time, the server was up with Fedora 13. No problem. Well not so fast. Yes problem !!! I can not install it !!! But my new friend from Linux.org mailing list suggested: yum install Asterisk and voila !!!! There you have it, Sr. A new Asterisk up and running in 5 seconds. How come nowhere in the internet, nor in Digium.com docs, blogs, or whatever, anybody mention that yum install is available ? Why nobody ever make a small note telling that asterisk is available from repositories to install, and that is so easy ? Can anybody explain that to me ? Thanks Alberto. -- @apetob at Tweeter There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20100813/fca29052/attachment.htm
Albert Bonomo wrote:> Hi. > I've been working with Asterisk for a few month now with great results. > I'm very happy with this product. I hope I can be of help in the > future of this project. > Right now I'm having some problems installing it in a new server. > > I wont bore you with details because finally the solution to my > problem was > clean and elegant and it came from a guy in a Linux mailing list. > > Here is my question. > My first install experience was quit a headache. I downloaded the > sources from Digium, > make them and after that make install them. Before that, I had to > install all the dependencies > bison, ncurses, zlib,gcc...and all there devels packages. > After that, libpri, dahdi and finally Asterisk. > I did it the first time for a server with Fedora 12. Took a while but > it is running now. > Then I decided to install in a new server. My project is geting bigger > so, why not ? > This time, the server was up with Fedora 13. No problem. > Well not so fast. Yes problem !!! I can not install it !!! > But my new friend from Linux.org mailing list suggested: yum install > Asterisk > and voila !!!! There you have it, Sr. A new Asterisk up and running in > 5 seconds. > > How come nowhere in the internet, nor in Digium.com docs, blogs, or > whatever, > anybody mention that yum install is available ? Why nobody ever make a > small > note telling that asterisk is available from repositories to install, > and that is so easy ? > > Can anybody explain that to me ? > Thanks > Alberto. >The short answer from someone who sees Linux as a means to an end ( running Asterisk ) is the rpm install forces one to accept Asterisk as built for the rpm, whereas installing from source gives a much more flexible install regarding any options. Also, I would suggest next time use CentOS 5, rather than Fedora. Linux distros are always somewhat of a religious argument, but many fewer problems seem to be reported that with Fedora. and then there is the Debian camp! John Novack> > -- > @apetob at Tweeter > > There are only 10 types of people in the world: > Those who understand binary and those who don't-- Dog is my Co-pilot
On 13 Aug 2010, at 14:08, Albert Bonomo wrote:> How come nowhere in the internet, nor in Digium.com docs, blogs, or whatever, > anybody mention that yum install is available ? Why nobody ever make a small > note telling that asterisk is available from repositories to install, and that is so easy ?Fedora made the packages for their yum I'd guess. Their job to document. For CentOS there is documentation: http://www.asterisk.org/downloads/yum Which is top result for 'asterisk yum install'. I figured asterisk.org would be a good place to look for Asterisk stuff.. Steve
Albert Bonomo wrote:> > How come nowhere in the internet, nor in Digium.com docs, blogs, or > whatever, > anybody mention that yum install is available ? Why nobody ever make a > smallBecause Digium didn't make them, the Fedora community did. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:08:37AM -0300, Albert Bonomo wrote:> Here is my question. > My first install experience was quit a headache. I downloaded the sources > from Digium, > make them and after that make install them. Before that, I had to install > all the dependencies > bison, ncurses, zlib,gcc...and all there devels packages.bison? yacc! Could you please point us to the document you followed? bison is no longer needed (as of 1.4, IIRC). As of 1.6.0 (or is it 1.6.2?) libxml2 is required. There's also a script in the sources to install build dependencies. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:guest at local.xorcom.com/tzafrir
On 13/08/10 14:08, Albert Bonomo wrote:> This time, the server was up with Fedora 13. No problem. > Well not so fast. Yes problem !!! I can not install it !!!Fedora is *not* a server operating system and not one I would choose to run asterisk on. I would recommend using either CentOS or a Debian/Ubuntu Server build without X11 and all the other cruft that comes with a Desktop OS - which is what Fedora is. I'd also consider how the packagers of CentOS or Debian chose to install Asterisk before deciding on using a pre-packaged implementation. CMMI and your own understanding of where/why and how it is installed will probably help you more in the longer run. HTH Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com