# Installing from Asterisk \*.tar files

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/installing-from-asterisk-tar-files/2182>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [November 1, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/installing-from-asterisk-tar-files/2182 "2005-11-01T02:27:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![gventer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@gventer](https://community.asterisk.org/u/gventer)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/installing-from-asterisk-tar-files/2182/1 "2005-11-01T02:27:18Z")

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How do one go by installing or updating Asterisk from the Asterisk tar files that you have downloaded? This is now instead of going through CVS. I have extracted the files to the repsective /src/usr/ directory and can make clean;make install for zaptel and libpri but get an error when I get to the Asterisk one.  
Thanks  
Gerhard

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**Author:** ![rightbrain](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/rightbrain/32/511_2.png) [@rightbrain](https://community.asterisk.org/u/rightbrain)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/installing-from-asterisk-tar-files/2182/2 "2005-11-01T03:15:34Z")

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what error?