Comments on: Installing Asterisk from source on Ubuntu http://chriscarey.com/wordpress/2008/06/14/installing-asterisk-from-source-on-ubuntu/ Software Developer San Francisco Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:20:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Russell Bryant http://chriscarey.com/wordpress/2008/06/14/installing-asterisk-from-source-on-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Russell Bryant Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:03:19 +0000 http://chriscarey.com/wordpress/?p=29#comment-112 Actually, bison and flex shouldn't be needed unless you're compiling Asterisk 1.0 (which has been obsolete for quite some time now). Another useful hint is to run "make menuselect" in the Asterisk source tree. Then, you can see which modules will not be compiled based on unsatisfied dependencies. You are correct, though, that libncurses5-dev and build-essential are the minimum requirements. Actually, bison and flex shouldn’t be needed unless you’re compiling Asterisk 1.0 (which has been obsolete for quite some time now). Another useful hint is to run “make menuselect” in the Asterisk source tree. Then, you can see which modules will not be compiled based on unsatisfied dependencies.

You are correct, though, that libncurses5-dev and build-essential are the minimum requirements.

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