How To: Instal Asterisk Painlessly on OpenSUSE 10.3

This took me some time to figure out… here you go.

1. Add the Telephony network repository in YaST2. The URL is http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/telephony/openSUSE_10.3/ …

2. There’s a bug in the deps for Asterisk with mISDNuser (the version in the repository is more recent, but is “uninstallable”) that will block the install process… so as a workaround, first, type zypper install zaptel. Then download mISDN-1_1_5-3.5.i586.rpm and mISDNuser-1_1_5-2.4.i586.rpm and install them with rpm -ihv mISDN*.rpm.

3. -Then- you can install asterisk with zypper install asterisk.

If I have the time, I'll provide configuration details later...

P.S. - Don't even try using the freepbx RPM -- it's busted pretty badly. Not sure why it is, I'll figure it out later...

Related:

• Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
• Asterisk Hacking
• Configuration Guide for Asterisk PBX
• Asterisk for Dummies
• Asterisk Telephony Solutions: Installing and Customizing Asterisk 1.4

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