[asterisk-users] Install via SVN or tarball?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:50:22PM -0500, Phil Finkler wrote:
> I'm new to Linux, as I've been using Asterisk on FreeBSD via the ports
> collection.  My question is simple - for using the release branch of
> Asterisk (1.2.13 for now), should I get in the habit of using svn to
> retrieve the source or should I just download the tarball?  Is there a
> "best practice" or a "recommended" installation method?
> 

Debian, SuSE, Ubuntu and probably some other distributions (Fedora?)
have their own packages of Asterisk. This is basically the equivalent of
usingAsterisk from the ports collection.

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