Hello!

Here I am going to explain the steps to install asterisk from the source files

What we are going to install here is the following

1. Asterisk version 1.6.2.16.1
2. Asterisk Addons version 1.6.2.3

Please note that these are the latest stable version in 1.6 series while writing this article.

We are also going to install the following for jabber/gtalk and php/mysql support

1. iksemel-1.4
2. PHP 5 with mysql support

Install Dependencies

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yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ libxml2-devel ncurses-devel  mysql mysql-devel mysql-server  php php-mysql php-devel openssl openssl-devel
wget http://iksemel.googlecode.com/files/iksemel-1.4.tar.gz
tar -zxf iksemel-1.4.tar.gz
cd iksemel-1.4
./configure
make
make install
cd /usr/local/lib
cp * /usr/lib
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Install Asterisk

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wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.6.2-current.tar.gz
tar -zxf asterisk-1.6.2-current.tar.gz
cd cd asterisk-1*
./configure
make && make install

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Install Asterisk Addons

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wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-addons-1.6.2-current.tar.gz
tar -zxf asterisk-addons-1.6.2-current.tar.gz
cd asterisk-addons-*
./configure
make && make install
chkconfig asterisk on

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Congratulations! We have successfully installed asterisk !

To run asterisk for the first time , type “asterisk”

To see the console, type “asterisk -rvvvv”