[TriLUG] [Trilug-announce] And now from the get rid of Ma and PaBell for good department: how to set up your own Asterix server

[Jon Carnes]

You've got your priorities right.

As for installing Asterisk, that is really very easy:
  http://www.asterisk.org/index.php?menu=download

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The best way to obtain Asterisk is to check out a fresh copy from the
CVS Server. 

Asterisk is nearing a 1.0 release, and has been branched so that only
bug fixes will be added to 1.0, and new feature are available in the CVS
head only.

To check out code from the STABLE 1.0 Branch CVS repository for Asterisk
ONLY:

  # cd /usr/src
  # export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs at cvs.digium.com:/usr/cvsroot
  # cvs login		- the password is anoncvs.
  # cvs checkout -r v1-0_stable asterisk     

This will create just the asterisk directory. For the other directories,
please use the steps mentioned above for the development repository.
Compiling them is generally quite straightforward. Just change to each
directory and type make install, in this order. Compile zaptel, then
libpri, and then asterisk. 

  # cd zaptel
  # make clean ; make install
  # cd ../libpri
  # make clean ; make install
  # cd ../asterisk
  # make clean ; make install

Note that your system MUST meet these requirements:

You must have readline and openssl and their respective development
packages.
You must be running Linux 2.4.x
You must have the Linux Kernel Sources package installed on your system.

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If you need help getting it configured after that, then just post to the
list and you'll get lots of advice!

Have fun with the kids - Jon Carnes

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 08:55, Matt Pusateri wrote:
> Okay, So now I am really bummed out. I probably won't make many meetings
> because of a scheduling conflict, and now something cool that I really
> want to come to and I have to take the kids to ride on Thomas the Train at
> Tweetsie this weekend.  I have been wanting to play with Asterisk for
> sometime now and this would have been the perfect excuse.
> 
> Matt Pusateri
> 
> > The class will be held June 12, 2004 from 9 AM to 12 PM at Global
> > Knowledge in Cary (directions below).
> >
> > Title: Teach Linux to answer the phone! Learn how to use Asterisk!
> >
> > Description:
> > Turn your Linux box into a high-powered phone system! Learn all about
> > the Asterisk PBX software and how you can use it to answer your phone,
> > run scripts, and even make cheap long-distance calls over the Internet!
> > Mark Turner from Siteseers will be teaching this introduction and basic
> > programming class.
> >
> <snip>