[Asterisk-Users] Need basic help getting started

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 21 May 2003 02:18 pm, Derek Beaumont wrote:
> Make sure you have the following packages installed:
>
> Bison
> libtermcap
> libtermcap-devel
> newt
> newt-devel
> ncurses
> ncurses-devel
>
> The documentation neglects to mention that you need these packages.
> People who have not done a lot of programming will not think to
> include these packages.  (I'm not positive about the newt package
> ... somebody else posted that that was necessary.  I have no idea
> what it is)

The newt package is not necessary to run Asterisk; it is the text
windowing library used for zttool and astman.

-Tilghman