Rick’s Rants and Raves

Download Asterisk.
Extract Asterisk
Install packages recommended by Asterisk documents page.
Use Adept to install gcc-4.0
Use Adept to install g++-4.0
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 /usr/bin/gcc
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-4.0 /usr/bin/g++
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 /usr/bin/cc
sudo make clean
sudo make install (get told to run ./configure)
sudo ./configure
sudo make install
sudo make samples
Use Adept to install doxygen
sudo make progdocs
Download O’Reilly’s Asterisk book.
Read through Configuring SIP section.
Download XTen X-Lite soft phone.
Use Adept to install libglade2-0
Configure X-Lite SIP Proxy to point to 127.0.0.1:5060.
Went Off-hook, got a dial tone!
sudo make config

Wipe the whole thing and install AsteriskNOW.