Thanks Rob – I guess that it is not installed yet – I get a directory not found trying your suggestion.  Taking a look at the freeswitch directory, there is no bin directory.  I will keep scratching away at it.

 

David

 

David V. Fansler

s/v Annabelle

dfansler@dv-fansler.com

www.dv-fansler.com

 

From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Rob Forman
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:42 PM
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] APT Utility

 

Ubuntu has pretty good package management with apt-get and should work well for a beginner.  The recommended OS (though FreeSWITCH runs on a wide variety of platforms) is 64-bit CentOS.  You can get it here: http://www.centos.org/ if you'd like, but at this point I think it's fine to just keep digging into whichever flavor of linux you have handy.

 

If you have FreeSWITCH compiled and installed, have you tried just starting it from the command line?  cd /usr/local/freeswitch ; ./bin/freeswitch

 

 

On Nov 19, 2009, at 8:18 PM, David V. Fansler wrote:



Thanks for your answers Rob and Shelby.  I found more info on apt-get and ran it against all the missing dependences noted.  I also ran through  the sequence of commands Shelby suggested.  In the end, running dpkg –checkbuilddeps I got the following in return

 

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unnet builddependencies: debhelper (>=5)

 

then followed the instructions for Ubuntu to enable freeswitch

nano /etc/default/freeswitch

FREESWITCH_ENABLE=”true”

 

And then tried

invoke –rc.d freeswitch start

but nothing obvious happened.

 

I am only using Ubuntu since it came as a free DVD in the Linux Pro mag that the article about Freeswitch was in.  Is there a better version of Linux to use?
thanks

 

David

 

David V. Fansler

s/v Annabelle

 

From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Rob Forman
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:53 PM
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] APT Utility

 

Hi David,

 

When using Apt, you would install packages with:

 

apt-get install <package name>

 

Or search for packages with

 

apt-cache search <search term>

 

 

If you're not root, you'll need to stick "sudo " in front of those command.  Honestly, you might want to find a better tutorial with explicit command-by-command instructions.

 

Good luck!

Rob

 

On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:49 PM, David V. Fansler wrote:




Greetings – I am trying to startup a freeSwitch on a P4 running Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty”.  I know very little about Linux.  I decided to try this after reading the article in Linux Pro Magazine.  I have been following the detailed instructions in the wiki for using Ubuntu Jaunty, however I have run into an unknown – “Use your favorite APT utility to get the needed packages”.

I am good at following direct instructions – but this statement is too vague for my minimal minimal – did I mention minimal - knowledge of Linux.

 

Could someone please give me detailed instructions on how to use APT utility to get the needed packages – and what are the needed packages?

Thanks kindly,

 

David

 

David V. Fansler

s/v Annabelle

 

 

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