Installation

pls can any one help me with asterisk installation,
i have downloaded version 1.6 and i cant unpack it.
it’s giving me the following error
tar: asterisk-1.6.2.0-beta3.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Check that you are running tar in the right directory and with the right filename. There is nothing complicated about this error.

what command are you using to untar? Remember it is tar as well as zip file. You should first unzip it and then untar it. The command should be like
tar -xzvf asterisk-1.6.2.0-beta3.tar.gz