[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk with SuSe 10

[Yu Safin]

On 1/24/06, Lee Archer <lee.archer at pentagon-systems.com> wrote:
> Thanks, I've got it running on my test box but didn't know if there was
> any global objection to using it.  I've had a few funnies with it but
> that might be down to Supermicro and P4's with the EM64T thing.
>
> Regards
>
> Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ben Klang
> Sent: 24 January 2006 15:49
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk with SuSe 10
>
> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 09:26, Lee Archer wrote:
> > Has anyone had any experience with the Asterisk on a SuSe 10 platform?
> > I'm currently using FC3 but because we use SuSe within other parts of
> > the business I'm being pushed to changed the OS.
> Just about all of my production Asterisk servers are on SuSE 9.3.  My
> development and demo boxes are SuSE 10.  Both run great.  I do however
> usually tweak the RPM that came with it to add in a few patches.  If you
> are comfortable with running Asterisk 1.0.9 then the RPM works very
> well.  SuSE always seems to really think things through when they
> package applications.
>
> For running something newer than Asterisk 1.0.9 SuSE 10 is also works
> fine.
> For your own sanity you'll want to not install/uninstall the SuSE
> Asterisk RPMs.  One possible gotcha: be careful of possibly conflicting
> kernel modules in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra as the Zaptel drivers
> are not part of any Asterisk package but rather the kernel.  The zaptel
> compile from source installs modules to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc so
> you'll want to delete the files in extra.  You'll also have to remember
> that each time you update the kernel RPM.
>
> Hope that helps.  The bottom line from me is Thumbs Up.
>
> /BAK/
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did you have to install asterisk from source or from rpm?
I have installed asterisk under RH and I am switching over to SuSE OSS
10.0.  I could not find the "rpm" for asterisk.  My searches show that
the rpm is available for the commercial version of SuSE.