After you have downloaded the tarball, unpackage it using tar -xvzf [name of file] (without the brackets) then issue the following commands as root to install Asterisk on your system (release 1, version 2 is used as an example):
# cd ../asterisk-1.2
# make clean; make install
Build the source
Install the following in order to build Asterisk and/or Zaptel:
- ncurses, and associated -devel
- openssl, and associated -devel
- zlib, and associated -devel
- bison, and associated -devel (1.0.X only)