Albert Bonomo wrote: > Hi. > I've been working with Asterisk for a few month now with great results. > I'm very happy with this product. I hope I can be of help in the > future of this project. > Right now I'm having some problems installing it in a new server. > > I wont bore you with details because finally the solution to my > problem was > clean and elegant and it came from a guy in a Linux mailing list. > > Here is my question. > My first install experience was quit a headache. I downloaded the > sources from Digium, > make them and after that make install them. Before that, I had to > install all the dependencies > bison, ncurses, zlib,gcc...and all there devels packages. > After that, libpri, dahdi and finally Asterisk. > I did it the first time for a server with Fedora 12. Took a while but > it is running now. > Then I decided to install in a new server. My project is geting bigger > so, why not ? > This time, the server was up with Fedora 13. No problem. > Well not so fast. Yes problem !!! I can not install it !!! > But my new friend from Linux.org mailing list suggested: yum install > Asterisk > and voila !!!! There you have it, Sr. A new Asterisk up and running in > 5 seconds. > > How come nowhere in the internet, nor in Digium.com docs, blogs, or > whatever, > anybody mention that yum install is available ? Why nobody ever make a > small > note telling that asterisk is available from repositories to install, > and that is so easy ? > > Can anybody explain that to me ? > Thanks > Alberto. > The short answer from someone who sees Linux as a means to an end ( running Asterisk ) is the rpm install forces one to accept Asterisk as built for the rpm, whereas installing from source gives a much more flexible install regarding any options.
Also, I would suggest next time use CentOS 5, rather than Fedora. Linux distros are always somewhat of a religious argument, but many fewer problems seem to be reported that with Fedora. and then there is the Debian camp! John Novack > > -- > @apetob at Tweeter > > There are only 10 types of people in the world: > Those who understand binary and those who don't -- Dog is my Co-pilot -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users