How To Install Asterisk For Your First PBX Solution | Linux Today

How To Install Asterisk For Your First PBX Solution

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 21, 2009

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“Due to the easy of implementation Asterisk has become
more popular than anything else. Asterisk is very easy to use and
lots of open source and closed source panels provide a GUI for it.

“Installation of asterisk server:
Pre-requites for asterisk installation: Asterisk requires a system
running with kernel 2.6 and the header files must be present to
compile asterisk on our system. Asterisk is written in c; we
require gcc with the supporting libs such as termcap, and openssl.
Asterisk add-ons require the mysql header files so please install
mysql lib, mysql client and the headers to compile
asterisk-addons.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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