Chapter 3. Installing Asterisk
I long to accomplish
great and noble tasks, but it is my
chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they
were great and noble. The world is moved along, not
only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller
In the previous chapter, we discussed preparing
a system to install Asterisk. Now it's time to obtain, extract,
compile, and install the software.
Although a large number of Linux
distributions and PC architectures are
excellent candidates for Asterisk, we have chosen to focus on a
single distribution in order to maintain brevity and clarity
throughout the book. The instructions that follow have been made as
generic as possible, but you may notice a leaning toward Red Hat
structures and utilities. We have chosen to focus on Red Hat
because its command set, directory structure, and so forth are
likely to be familiar to the majority of users (we have found that
most Linux administrators are familiar with Red Hat, even if they
don't prefer it). However, this doesn't mean that Red Hat is the
only choice, or even the best one for you. A question that often
appears on the mailing lists is: "Which distribution of Linux is
the best to use with Asterisk?" The multitude of answers generally
boils down to "the one you like the best."
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