[Asterisk-Users] Please help with install *

[Mike Dent]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 07:45:42 -0800 (PST), Victoria Alexandru
<victoria_alexandru at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm a neewbie in Linux, so please bear with me. 
> I have a school assignment to make communication between 10 SIP softphones
> (kphone). 
> So far I got trouble installing Asterisk. The information in asterisk web
> site seems to be a bit outdated because it's mentioned only kernel 2.4. 
> Since Mandrake cooker (10.2beta3) witch I'm using is using kernel 2.6.10, I
> wander if I have a chance to install it properly. 
> All I have are the 3 installation CDs and it looks I'm missing some packages
> (bison, and associated -devel, zlib, and associated -devel). Should these be
> taken from contrib? 
>   
> In fact can anyone tell me exactly what exactly do I need? (As an example, I
> believe in wiki I found I would need newt, which is not in the list from
> Asterisk web page) 
> I had several attempts ended in failure and as much I would like to
> understand what I'm doing, I would like also to document my progress. I
> think you can guess my frustation, therefore I would much appreciate any
> verbose info. 
>   
> Thanks, V.

Have you looked at Asterisk at Home? Install a box with that on and you
should be up and running in a couple hours.
Mike