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 impact our sound quality. So, you may save a little time and disk space by choosing not to install any such frontend.
One note here—we should prepare to manage our server. We must keep in mind that we will...