newbie guide to asterisk on f11?

[Bob Gustafson]

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 04:51 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> 
> > There is a book on-line "Asterisk - The Future of Telephony", 2nd
> > ed. (604 pages) free http://astbook.asteriskdocs.org/ (See link in
> > the middle of the page) This doc is for version 1.4, but for a
> > newbie, there isn't much difference between 1.4 and 1.6
...
>   at the moment, it *appears* that my problem is that asterisk has
> been broken down into numerous packages for fedora packaging, and i
> need to determine what packages to install along with the core package
> mentioned above.  that means that i'm going to end up suggesting some
> text along the lines of, "if you're trying to play with asterisk on
> fedora 11, it's not enough to just install the base package, you'll
> need to install a number of other packages," followed by some kind of
> recipe for determining which ones.

I imagine that when F11 goes golden, and if it does include the 1.6.1
version of Asterisk, it will include all of the necessary packages, or
will 'depend' on them.

My guess is that so much time is being spent on sorting out other Fedora
problems, Asterisk will be whipped into shape at the last moment,
perhaps with a regress to an earlier version.

You are playing with several moving targets.

> 
>   so if someone has been down that road already, i'm open to
> suggestions.  otherwise, i'll just play until i figure it out.
> 
> rday
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