i’n not new with linux, i work with linux for 5 years now… and yesterday I spent 5 freaking hours trying to install asterisk… the problem is with “Install the following in order to build Asterisk and/or Zaptel” from install page
"Install the following in order to build Asterisk and/or Zaptel:
ncurses, and associated -devel
openssl, and associated -devel
zlib, and associated -devel
bison, and associated -devel (1.0.X only) "
i understand that those programs always updates but if asterisk depend on it YOU HAVE create the section with direct link on download, and keep it update… this is part of asterisk…
after 5 hours i gave up on zlib (did not even go the last one), when i couldn’t even find -devel package wich will work with non-devel… this is insane what you guys doing…
you’re in a minority i’m afraid … i’ve never had a problem installing Asterisk that didn’t involve more than downloading an updated tarball and installing it. i sometimes use RPM-based distros, and haven’t had a problem there either.
to expect Digium to maintain someone elses packages just because Asterisk depends on them is unreasonable imo.
i’m the new guy with Asterisk. and this is my opinion from this point of vew. How do you expect Asterisk to grow if no new guy can install it?
all those soft on which asteriks depends should have at least installation instuction on installation asterisk page, based on fresh’ new system. (Fedora, Suse, Mandrake)
the installation page is WORTHLESS. I’m so angry on asterisk, because they made awesome product and I can’t even install it… and again i’m NOT new in linux
that’s where we get the question no-one wants to ask … do you want to trust probably the most crucial part of a companies communication policy to someone that can’t even install the software ?
i’ve been “using” Linux for nearly 10 years, but only really using it for the past 3 years, and only seriously for the past 2. but i say again, i’ve not had a problem installing it that wasn’t overcome in a quick google, a re-read of the instructions i was following, or installing dependencies i had missed. let’s be honest, Asterisk doesn’t have much in the way of dependencies, it’s not hard to get a system up together to run it.
ncurses, and associated -devel
openssl, and associated -devel
zlib, and associated -devel
bison, and associated -devel (1.0.X only)
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Frankly speaking i have have never had to do this myself on any Asterisk Installs, if you are requiring them then you must have either an outdated Linux Install, or you have built the Linux Install without the sufficient Dev tools.
What Distro are you using of Linux?
Have you updated it recently?
If all is good you should be able to go to the asterisk website and download what ever version of Asterisk and its associated files you want and install them easily enough.
im not a Linux guru and i got asterisk built anbd installed very easily. i am using centos 4 which seems to work the best. I installed the distro with all the devel utilities… google searched a little and pretty soon i had asterisk with the GUI up and running…
dont take everything literally in the link just gets you ideas… they morphed a trixbox in this article but i found doing a scratch install of centos and this article got me headed i nthe right direction.
-Christopher
Not sure why it was so hard to install the dependancies. There are some ISO’s that integrate zaptel/libpri/asterisk and everything into a Linux distribution. Digium’s is currently in beta and is called AsteriskNOW(www.asterisknow.com) and there is also TrixBox. These are for the people that don’t want to learn or mess with the very technical stuff such as compiling and making sure all the correct dependancies are installed. I know in Debian the package names don’t always match up the way you expect. Like zlib’s package name is “zlib1g”. That’s why you have to use the package search utility. Maybe thats your problem?