Lol, did you like that one too.......like I said I'm a total newbie but learning fast, I was trying to copy this file across by floppy disk so I had to learn about mounting floppy drives and tar files etc, after 1 hour I happened across 'wget' man I could have punched someone in the face for this.
Lol, I know I'll get there but what is it with documentation and opensource. There is a reason Microsoft is winning guys and price isn't it. Cheers, Dean -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Anderson Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:41 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] $200 AMP documentation bounty > Lol, in other words for newbies forget it, I've tried like 3 or 4 times > to install it and their documentation just plain sucks, so I'm prepared > to pay anyone $200 that can write a step by step guide and then this can > be posted online to help out others. Hey, I'm a newbie and I got it to go OK. Works fine. First time I tried the dependencies drove me nuts too, so I switched tactics and just used FC2 Yum; for all the required packages I just used yum install <package> and it resolved all the dependencies. For any other stuff, like Sendmail config, auto-starting a service, etc google is your friend. For MySQL permissions issues and for general admin issues phpadmin and webmin are your friends. Once your config is locked down, take them out. I agree about the docs though, they are brutal and it takes a half-day to install it from scratch. Some of the stuff is cryptic: "Get AstPerl from Gnuinter. Install it." How? You l33t guys on the list chuckle at our noobieness, but for a noob it's a steep learning curve. If you come from the Windows world or no world at all, installs like this border on insane but IMO the best way to overcome it is to take a crash course in general Linux admin: "what does chmod do? " , "Case matters in Linux, so double check what you are typing" , "Get proficient with a text editor, you will need it" , "be familiar with both tar and gzip" etc One thing that drove me crazy the first time is that the Perl MCPAN modules kept failing on install until I realized that the -j3 flag in the Perl was required for SMP machines. Little things like that can trip you up and you are screwed. You can't just assume that your "make" command worked because you got a command prompt back. Read the output spit back to the console, carefully. Above all, be patient. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
