[Asterisk-Users] A@H / Trixbox Question

[Michael Collins]

> The installation of CentOS is sufficient to support TrixBox, but you
can
> always add additional packages using yum.
> 

If you download the iso and view it then you can see which packages
Trixbox loads by default.  On the CD or in the iso file find this
directory:

/CentOS/RPMS/

In it are all of the packages that Trixbox installs during the CentOS
installation.  Afterward, the Trixbox install process runs the script
install.sh - open it up and you'll see a line that says

yum -y install alsa-utils audiofile-devel bison <etc.>

That will give you the list of packages that Trixbox will start with.  I
would recommend starting with the Trixbox install and then adding what
you need.  It is much easier (IMO) and keeps things clean.  One package
that I add immediately is samba-client.i386 - I need to communicate with
several Samba servers right after a new install, so I just do:

yum install samba-client.i386

All done!  If you know which packages you want to add you can manually
yum them one at a time, or you could write a script with a line like the
one in install.sh.  Personally, I modified the install.sh script, added
a few other goodies, created a new iso file and burned a brand new CD
that installs Trixbox with my customizations.  This is useful for
creating a backup as well.  I keep a copy of my *conf files on another
server, and after the Trixbox install I have a script go grab them and
put them in /etc/asterisk.  Very convenient for those of us who'd rather
write Perl and shell scripts than manually copy a bunch of files all
over the place.

HtH!

-MC