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

[Ludovic Gasc]

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.

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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