General comments

Once you've decided on your hardware, you need to choose your OS. This page links to OS and distro specific instructions.

It is worth pointing out that as Asterisk changes pretty frequently, these instructions will become less and less useful as time passes. Hopefully you'll do your bit for the Asterisk community by updating them as and when changes need to be made.

OS Specific instructions

• Asterisk installation on Fedora Core 2 final
• Asterisk installation for CentOS 4.x
• CentOS 5 and Asterisk 1.4.x installation
• CentOS 5.2 and Asterisk 1.6.x installation
• Asterisk installation tips: How to install on all kinds of operating systems and distributions