# Er silly question, but i'm stuck

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/er-silly-question-but-im-stuck/13355>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [March 26, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/er-silly-question-but-im-stuck/13355 "2007-03-26T13:03:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![davethornton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@davethornton](https://community.asterisk.org/u/davethornton)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/er-silly-question-but-im-stuck/13355/1 "2007-03-26T13:03:34Z")

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Hiya guys,  
I’m new to linux, installed Redhat last week. I have fumbled my way through the install of Asterisk 1.2.17 using google and this forum. The problem i have is i cannot seem to find anyway to ‘run’ the asterisk application?!? 😊  
Am i missing something??

Any pointers would be much apreciated…

Many thanks

Dave

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**Author:** ![baconbuttie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/baconbuttie/32/916_2.png) [@baconbuttie](https://community.asterisk.org/u/baconbuttie)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/er-silly-question-but-im-stuck/13355/2 "2007-03-26T14:14:43Z")

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the simplest way for you might be to run “make config” in your Asterisk source directory, then run “service asterisk start”. you’ll have a running Asterisk instance then (as long as you have conf files) and you can connect to it by running “asterisk -r”

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**Author:** ![davethornton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@davethornton](https://community.asterisk.org/u/davethornton)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/er-silly-question-but-im-stuck/13355/3 "2007-03-26T14:32:11Z")

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Hiya

Nice one cheers bacon, so there is no GUI with Asterisk then??

Many thanks

Dave

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**Author:** ![baconbuttie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/baconbuttie/32/916_2.png) [@baconbuttie](https://community.asterisk.org/u/baconbuttie)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/er-silly-question-but-im-stuck/13355/4 "2007-03-26T14:44:03Z")

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not unless you install it, and even then it’s a remote GUI (unless you want X to kill your call quality)