[asterisk-users] Install Scripts for CentOS 4

[Kyle Sexton]

"Baji Panchumarti" <baji.panchumarti at gmail.com> writes:

>  On Nov 13, 2007 3:13 PM, Zaheer K. Master  wrote:
>
>> OK Thanks!
>> If I'm building a new Asterisk system from scratch, is
>> there any downside to using CentOS 4 instead of 5?
>
>  some of the packages in 4 (4.5) are pretty old, eg. sox
>  that is bundled with 4.5 does not recognize several
>  common audio formats. You can upgrade some of the
>  packages to more current versions.
>
>  If you plan to do any asterisk-AGI using php, centos 4.5
>  installs php4, most of the new php stuff is written in php5.
>
>  I would also suggest evaluating debian as an alternative
>  to centos  4 & 5  for your  *  box.
>
>  In my limited experience, I have found debian 4.0 (Etch)
>  to be a better platform for * than centos 4.5 & 5.
>  But please, I don't want to start a distro flame war here.
>
>  YMMV.

The nice thing about CentOS (as opposed to Redhat proper) is 
that they provide the CentOS Plus repository, so installing 
PHP5/MySQL would be something like:

# yum --enablerepo=centosplus install php php-mysql

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Kyle Sexton