# I am geting error :Unknown host cvs.digium.com

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [November 9, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515 "2007-11-09T23:02:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![ipx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@ipx](https://community.asterisk.org/u/ipx)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515/1 "2007-11-09T23:02:16Z")

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hi , i m trying to to this:

[quote]- Login to your Linux system as user “rootâ€

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**Author:** ![AndrewZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@AndrewZ](https://community.asterisk.org/u/AndrewZ)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515/2 "2007-11-09T23:07:44Z")

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What are you really want to achieve?

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**Author:** ![ipx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@ipx](https://community.asterisk.org/u/ipx)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515/3 "2007-11-09T23:31:22Z")

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> [@AndrewZ](#):
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> What are you really want to achieve?

Installing Asterisk in that way.  
you need more info?

thanks

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**Author:** ![AndrewZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@AndrewZ](https://community.asterisk.org/u/AndrewZ)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515/4 "2007-11-09T23:43:41Z")

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What is more important for you - install or that way ?

cd /usr/src  
wget [www.asterisk.org](http://www.asterisk.org))

gunzip …  
tar -xvf …

cd asterisk-1.4.13

./configure  
make  
make install

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If you want to play with the latest code - read [this](http://www.asterisk.org/developers/get-source)

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**Author:** ![ipx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@ipx](https://community.asterisk.org/u/ipx)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515/5 "2007-11-09T23:50:28Z")

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[quote=“AndrewZ”]What is more important for you - install or that way ?

cd /usr/src  
wget [www.asterisk.org](http://www.asterisk.org))

gunzip …  
tar -xvf …

cd asterisk-1.4.13

./configure  
make  
make install

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If you want to play with the latest code - read [this](http://www.asterisk.org/developers/get-source)[/quote]

thanks you very much andrew  
😃

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**Author:** ![ipx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@ipx](https://community.asterisk.org/u/ipx)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515/6 "2007-11-10T00:02:27Z")

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i download asterisk-1.4.13.tar.gz and it is in /home/aytw/Desktop  
i have a problem bot

[quote]aytw@ubuntu:~$ sudo su -  
[sudo] password for aytw:  
root@ubuntu:~# cd /usr/src  
root@ubuntu:/usr/src# gunzip …  
gzip: …gz: No such file or directory[/quote]

thanks

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**Author:** ![AndrewZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@AndrewZ](https://community.asterisk.org/u/AndrewZ)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515/7 "2007-11-10T00:16:01Z")

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… means TheNameOfTheFileYouAreWorkingWith !!!

gunzip asterisk-1.4.13.tar.gz  
tar -xvf asterisk-1.4.13.tar

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**Author:** ![ipx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@ipx](https://community.asterisk.org/u/ipx)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515/8 "2007-11-10T00:23:24Z")

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[quote=“AndrewZ”]… means TheNameOfTheFileYouAreWorkingWith !!!

gunzip asterisk-1.4.13.tar.gz  
tar -xvf asterisk-1.4.13.tar[/quote]

thank bot, same problem

[quote]aytw@ubuntu:~$ sudo su -  
root@ubuntu:~# cd /usr/src  
root@ubuntu:/usr/src# gunzip asterisk-1.4.13.tar.gz  
gzip: asterisk-1.4.13.tar.gz: No such file or directory  
root@ubuntu:/usr/src# [/quote]

i am sour that i have the file :  
asterisk-1.4.13.tar.gz  
(tar archive (gzip-compressed) 10.7 MB)  
in :  
/home/aytw/Desktop

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**Author:** ![AndrewZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@AndrewZ](https://community.asterisk.org/u/AndrewZ)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 9:38am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515/9 "2007-11-10T09:38:50Z")

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Forget about Asterisk!  
Read at least one unix book.

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**Author:** ![ipx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@ipx](https://community.asterisk.org/u/ipx)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/i-am-geting-error-unknown-host-cvs-digium-com/17515/10 "2007-11-10T22:17:16Z")

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[quote=“AndrewZ”]Forget about Asterisk!  
Read at least one unix book.[/quote]

thank god idea 😃  
i acept what are you say and going to learn [linux.org/lessons/beginner/l1/lesson1b.html](http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/l1/lesson1b.html)  
thanks again