Checking Asterisk Requirements
title: Checking Asterisk Requirements pageid: 4817512
Configuring Asterisk¶
Now it's time to compile and install Asterisk. Let's change to the directory which contains the Asterisk source code.
Next, we'll run a command called ./configure, which will perform a number of checks on the operating system, and get the Asterisk code ready to compile on this particular server.
This will run for a couple of minutes, and warn you of any missing system libraries or other dependencies. Unless you've installed all of the System Requirements for your version of Asterisk, the configure script is likely to fail. If that happens, resolve the missing dependency manually, or use the install_prereq script to resolve all of the dependencies on your system.
Once a dependency is resolved, run configure again to make sure the missing dependency is fixed.
!!! tip ** If you have many missing dependencies, you may find yourself running **configure a lot. If that is the case, you'll do yourself a favour by checking the System Requirements or installing all dependencies via the install_prereq script.
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configure: host-cpu:vendor:os: x86_64 : unknown : linux-gnu :
!!! tip Cached Data** The **./configure command caches certain data to speed things up if it's invoked multiple times. To clear all the cached data, you can use the following command to completely clear out any cached data from the Asterisk build system.
Using install_prereq¶
The install_prereq script is included with every release of Asterisk in the contrib/scripts subdirectory. The script has the following options:
- test - print only the libraries to be installed.
- install - install package dependencies only. Depending on your distribution of Linux, version of Asterisk, and capabilities you wish to use, this may be sufficient.
- install-unpackaged - install dependencies that don't have packages but only have tarballs. You may need these dependencies for certain capabilities in Asterisk.
Warning
You should always use your operating system's package management tools to ensure that your system is running the latest software before running install_prereq. Ubuntu 14's libsnmp-dev package, for instance, has an issue where it will attempt to remove critical system packages if the system isn't updated before an attempt is made to install that package.