asterisk users - Feb 2013 - Installing ODBC connector

All,
  I'm installing Asterisk Realtime on my ubuntu machine following Chapter 16
in the asterisk guide book.  I've successfully installed mysql and the odbc
drivers but when I'm asked to recompile asterisk to make sure asterisk
recognizes ODBC, i can't find the source folder to run ./configure leading
me to believe asterisk wasn't compiled from source when originally
installed.  Is this a problem?  How do I let asterisk know that i've
installed the ODBC drivers?  I know there is a res_odbc.conf file to edit but
that too hasn't allowed me to connect to ODBC socket.  (I've proven this
by CLI> odbc show which gives me nothing)  Thanks.

 nick
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicholas Johnson" <nejohnson2 at me.com>
> 
> All,
> I'm installing Asterisk Realtime on my ubuntu machine following
> Chapter 16 in the asterisk guide book. I've successfully installed
> mysql and the odbc drivers but when I'm asked to recompile asterisk
> to make sure asterisk recognizes ODBC, i can't find the source
> folder to run ./configure leading me to believe asterisk wasn't
> compiled from source when originally installed. Is this a problem?
> How do I let asterisk know that i've installed the ODBC drivers? I
> know there is a res_odbc.conf file to edit but that too hasn't
> allowed me to connect to ODBC socket. (I've proven this by CLI> odbc
> show which gives me nothing) Thanks.
> 
I'd take a step back and learn how to compile from source first:
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Installing+Asterisk+From+Source 
After reading through all that, you'll probably be able to figure it out.

But you probably want to know whether you already installed Asterisk via
packages.. as then the whole process may be different.

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Rusty Newton 
OS Community Support Manager | Digium, Inc. | www.digium.com