Error in asterisk installation

hi anyone give to reference manual to install asterisk -1.4.0 …
when i trying to install asterik as per a.2.0 version i got error in asterisk packge instalation.

thanks

What documentation are you using ?
Also what did you install before you tried to install asterisk ?
Can you post the error’s that you get here please ?

when i’m trying to install asterisk 1.4 i got followimg error…
linux:/usr/src/asterisk/asterisk # make install


**** The configure script must be executed before running ‘make’.


make: *** [makeopts] Error 1
linux:/usr/src/asterisk/asterisk # make samples
mkdir -p /asterisk
for x in configs/*.adsi; do
if [ ! -f /asterisk/$x ]; then
-m 644 $x /asterisk/$x ;
fi ;
done
/bin/sh: configs/asterisk.adsi: Permission denied
/bin/sh: -m: command not found
/bin/sh: configs/telcordia-1.adsi: Permission denied
/bin/sh: -m: command not found
make: *** [adsi] Error 127
linux:/usr/src/asterisk/asterisk #

please answear me …
but zaptel.libpri are installed without error

thanks,

Did you run the configure script before running make ?
Also are you doing just make install or make and then make install ?