Open Source - How to Download and Compile Asterisk on CentOS

In order to download the source, visit http://www.downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/ and select one of the tar.gz links (http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/certified-asterisk/certified-asterisk-11.2-cert2.tar.gz for example)

1. In a terminal, change to the /usr/src directory then download the Asterisk tarball (copied .tar.gz link)

   1. cd /usr/src

   2. wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/certified-asterisk/certified-asterisk-11.2-cert2.tar.gz

2. After this is done, extract the tar file.

   1. tar -zxvf certified-asterisk-11.2-cert2.tar.gz

3. Change to the Asterisk source directory

   1. cd certified-asterisk-11.2-cert2/

4. Lastly, compile Asterisk

   1. ./configure

   2. make menuselect

   3. make

   4. make install

   5. make samples (this installs a set of sample config files and is optional)

   6. make config