[asterisk-users] Installation instructions for Opus are incorrect - maybe?

[Ludovic Gasc]

2018-01-27 10:55 GMT+01:00 Jonathan H <lardconcepts at gmail.com>:

> On 27 January 2018 at 09:27, Ludovic Gasc <gmludo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > If you put the cursor on the line XXX, you will see what are the
> > dependencies are missing to enable the option.
> > In this case, it's certainly curl that is missing on your system.
>
> Ah, OK! No, it wasn't curl that was missing, but I think the way it
> was phrased confused me. It says:
>
> "Download the Opus codec from Digium.  See
> http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/codec_opus/README.
> Depends on: xmlstarlet(E), bash(E), res_format_attr_opus(M)
> Support Level: external"
>
> However, while I managed to apt install xmlstarlet, I already had
> bash, and I can't find res_format_attr_opus.
>

(M) means it's a module, not it's an error.
Do you relaunch configure after xmlstarlet install ?
For bash error, no idea.


>
> Any ideas? Many thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
> > Regards.
> >
> > --
> > Ludovic Gasc (GMLudo)
> >
> > 2018-01-27 2:06 GMT+01:00 Jonathan H <lardconcepts at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Before I got an log a ticket, can I just check I'm not doing anything
> >> wrong?
> >>
> >> In 15.2, to install Opus:
> >>
> >> 1) run `make menuselect`
> >> 2) Highlight "Codec Translators" and press enter.
> >> 3) Scroll down to "codec_opus" in the section labeled "External"
> >> 4) Press enter to select the codec if it is not already selected.
> >> ... at this point, I see
> >>
> >>   XXX codec_opus
> >>
> >> and a message to download codec opus from Digium, using this link:
> >>
> >> http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/codec_opus/README
> >> (note: same as
> >> http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/codec_opus/
> asterisk-15.0/x86-64/
> >> )
> >>
> >> The link says:
> >>
> >>  The preferred way of installing the Opus codec is to use menuselect in
> >>   Asterisk to automatically download and install the codec. From the
> >> Asterisk
> >>   top-level source directory, run
> >>
> >>   1) run `make menuselect`
> >>   2) Highlight "Codec Translators" and press enter.
> >>   3) Scroll down to "codec_opus" in the section labeled "External"
> >>   4) Press enter to select the codec if it is not already selected.
> >>
> >> ... well, you've guessed it, I'm in a loop now!
> >>
> >> There's another way:
> >>
> >>  " The alternative way to install codec_opus is to download a tarball
> >>   directly from digium.com. Once the tarball is downloaded and
> untarred,
> >>   perform the following steps:
> >>
> >>   1) Copy the codec_opus.so file into the Asterisk module directory (by
> >> default,
> >>      /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/).
> >>   2) Copy the codec_opus_config-en_US.xml file into the Asterisk
> external
> >>      documentation directory (by default,"
> >>
> >> But there are two files:
> >>
> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 354000 Dec 11 23:16 codec_opus.so*
> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 226576 Dec 11 23:16 format_ogg_opus.so*
> >>
> >>
> >> Not saying this latter part is beyond my comprehension, just that
> >> neither route matches the instructions :)
> >>
> >> So... is it me being stupid, or should I log a ticket?
> >>
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