[Asterisk-Users] Installation Problem

[John Todd]

>On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 02:27, John Todd wrote:
>>  Phil -
>>     Here are my "generic" notes and reminders for Asterisk on Debian.
>>  These may be hacks; your mileage may vary.
>>
>>  debian asterisk install notes:
>>  - in asterisk/Makefile: added "-I/usr/local/ssl/include" to CFLAGS line
>>  - in asterisk/res/Makefile: added "-L/usr/local/ssl/lib" to CRYPTO_LIBS line
>>  - in zaptel/Makefile: commented out KFLAGS+=-DCONFIG_ZAPATA_PPP   line
>>  - installed libnewt-dev
>>  - installed newt-tcl (?needed)
>>  - installed "apt-get source openssl"
>>  - installed "apt-get install openssl"
>
>There are dev packages for openssl so the the source is not necessary.
>The dev packages put the headers in the right place and therefore the
>/usr/local/ changes aren't necessary.
>
>libnewt-dev is important so you can compile zttool and astman. newt-tcl
>shouldn't be necessary, but may be a debian dependency thing.
>
>The PPP line is only needed if either your kernel doesn't have PPP
>support, or if you don't plan on using the PPP options on the T1/E1
>interfaces.
>
>Hope that clears up any problems.
>--
>Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>

OK, thanks for the follow-up.  I just did what was required to get it 
running on the particular version of Debian that I was given.  I am 
unfamiliar with the distro, so those are my notes that I used to get 
it working.   For whatever reason, the ssl libraries were not found 
correctly, and I had to modify the Makefiles to do the right thing. 
The version I was using didn't have the ppp support in the kernel by 
"default", so I deactivated it - none of my clients use the RAS 
features of Asterisk, so it's no big loss.

The one last thing I did notice is that after someone else has 
installed "new" kernels, the "/usr/src/linux" symlink to the kernel 
directory in the same . went away.  I don't know if this is part of a 
normal kernel upgrade with Debian or what, but I've had to link it 
manually twice to get Asterisk to compile.

JT