[asterisk-users] Updating Asterisk

[A J Stiles]

On Thursday 24 Mar 2016, Mamadou NGOM wrote:
> Hello,
> I am asking if it is possible to left from a version to another one  of
> asterisk without reinstalling it. I would like to say for example  is
> there a linux command which allows us to left version 12 to 13. Passage
> from a version to an other one by a sample command.Else, you must install
> it do a migration for a new version. Help me please if you know. Thanks

If your Linux distribution includes pre-compiled Asterisk packages, then you 
can just use your package manager.  Likewise if some third party has created 
pre-compiled packages  (and you trust them).

However, you usually are best off installing Asterisk from Source Code anyway, 
as you can then omit all the bits you don't need  (and it's not hard, if you 
miss a bit you later found you needed after all; just turn it on in menuconfig 
and repeat the make command).


Of course it is possible, when you build Asterisk, to do so as though you were 
building a .deb or .rpm to distribute.  For this you will require another 
computer of the same architecture and running  (a fairly minimal installation 
of, so you can be sure of the dependencies)  the same OS as your Asterisk 
server, and the relevant developer documentation from your distro's homepage.

-- 
AJS

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