# NEW ASTERISK USER - Question about Linux platform **URL:** \ **Category:** Asterisk Support\ **Created:** [February 7, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/new-asterisk-user-question-about-linux-platform/73446 "2018-02-07T03:16:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cajunchief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@cajunchief](https://community.asterisk.org/u/cajunchief)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/new-asterisk-user-question-about-linux-platform/73446/1 "2018-02-07T03:16:06Z")
Hi all, I am a new user to Asterisk and am seeking decent to good info(or better) to help me setup my Asterisk system. I have a older hp (not sure model num) with I5-443 cpu, 64bit, 8GB ram. I am trying to install certified asterisk 13.18-cert2. I go through the installation process until I get to this part: I am trying to get Asterisk installed and up and running but I get to the part where i did this line: ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64 that completed with this line: configure: error: \*\*\* uuid support not found (this typically means the uuid development package is missing I then ran the : make menuselect command and got this šŸ™‚ \*\*\*\* The configure script must be executed before running ā€˜makeā€™. Makefile:109: makeopts: No such file or directory \*\*\* Please run ā€œ./configureā€. * * * make: \*\*\* [makeopts] Error 1 I could use any help. Thank you. cajunchief ---
**Author:** ![ambiorixg12](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/ambiorixg12/32/1887_2.png) [@ambiorixg12](https://community.asterisk.org/u/ambiorixg12)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/new-asterisk-user-question-about-linux-platform/73446/2 "2018-02-07T04:40:07Z")
> [@cajunchief](#): > > configure: error: \*\*\* uuid support not found (this typically means the uuid development package is missing Trying fixing you dependencies issue using the install\_prereq install script 1- cd asterisk-\* 2- contrib/scripts/install\_prereq install ---
**Author:** ![cajunchief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@cajunchief](https://community.asterisk.org/u/cajunchief)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/new-asterisk-user-question-about-linux-platform/73446/3 "2018-02-07T12:30:46Z")
Hi ambiorixg12, Merci Beaucoup! your solution was PERFECT!!! ONE other question if you donā€™t mind. Everything worked and all went well until the last step when I got this error: Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?) Where does this file normally come from? Am I supposed to create it? cajunchief ---
**Author:** ![david551](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@david551](https://community.asterisk.org/u/david551)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/new-asterisk-user-question-about-linux-platform/73446/4 "2018-02-07T12:45:27Z")
It is created by Asterisk when you run it with any option except -c, and is deleted on a controlled shutdown. ---
**Author:** ![cajunchief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@cajunchief](https://community.asterisk.org/u/cajunchief)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/new-asterisk-user-question-about-linux-platform/73446/5 "2018-02-07T15:47:58Z")
david551, merci beaucoup! Thanks mate!!! cajunchief ---
**Author:** ![cajunchief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@cajunchief](https://community.asterisk.org/u/cajunchief)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/new-asterisk-user-question-about-linux-platform/73446/6 "2018-03-03T00:12:13Z")
I have a new question for you hope you can help: I read centos 7 was having problems with asterisk! So I decided to rebuild my server like this: Server with two terabyte drives CentOS 6.8 Etcā€¦ I loaded the first 6.8 dvd an ran the install During install I selected basic web server configuration I then selected two drives to load CentOS 6.8 on I put : boot - 2GB /boot/efi -5GB /home -150 GB Swap- 5GB /-20 GB 2nd HD /var whole drive I then hit next to continue the system gave me this error: That it needs to format the hd1 to a GPT format! Is this ok? cajunchief ---
**Author:** ![johnkiniston](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/johnkiniston/32/28_2.png) [@johnkiniston](https://community.asterisk.org/u/johnkiniston)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/new-asterisk-user-question-about-linux-platform/73446/7 "2018-03-06T17:26:50Z")
The installer is just asking you if it can format your drive, Assuming you donā€™t have any data you want to save on the machine then formatting is both OK and necessary. Asterisk should work fine on Centos 7.