We're making great time! Together, we have selected Asterisk to meet our needs, created a plan to define how our phone system will act, and we are ready to begin installing Asterisk.
In order to install Asterisk, we will need a computer with Linux installed. It's a good idea to ensure your system is up-to-date, for instance, by using the yum tool. Once we have installed our distribution of choice, we need to make sure we have a few additional packages installed. The required extra packages over a base installation are:
Bison, and associated -devel (1.0.X only) gcc
Kernel-source
Libtermcap-devel
ncurses, and associated -developenssl, and associated -develzlib, and associated -devel
Once we have installed these packages, we are ready to install Asterisk. We should not run an X server or any windowing software on our Asterisk machine, as the resources it consumes are almost guaranteed to delay our voice processing, and therefore negatively...