You need to install few other packages - full list is:<div><br></div><div><pre style="padding-top:1em;padding-right:1em;padding-bottom:1em;padding-left:1em;border-top-width:1px;border-right-width:1px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:1px;border-top-style:dashed;border-right-style:dashed;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-left-style:dashed;border-top-color:rgb(47,111,171);border-right-color:rgb(47,111,171);border-bottom-color:rgb(47,111,171);border-left-color:rgb(47,111,171);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:1.1em">
yum install autoconf automake gcc-c++ git-core libjpeg-devel libtool make ncurses-devel pkgconfig</pre><div><br></div><div>You can find this description at the following section of the installation guide:</div><div><a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Installation_Guide#CentOS">http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Installation_Guide#CentOS</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, you might want to install the optional packages:</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="padding-top:1em;padding-right:1em;padding-bottom:1em;padding-left:1em;border-top-width:1px;border-right-width:1px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:1px;border-top-style:dashed;border-right-style:dashed;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-left-style:dashed;border-top-color:rgb(47,111,171);border-right-color:rgb(47,111,171);border-bottom-color:rgb(47,111,171);border-left-color:rgb(47,111,171);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:1.1em">
 yum install unixODBC-devel openssl-devel gnutls-devel libogg-devel libvorbis-devel curl-devel libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel python-devel expat-devel zlib zlib-devel bzip2 which</pre><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Vitalie</div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/23 Sean Devoy <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sdevoy@bizfocused.com">sdevoy@bizfocused.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am a NooB to FreeSwitch.  Sorry if I should start elsewhere, I can’t figure out where.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I ran the recommended installation instructions, including installing Centos 5.7 from boot DVD.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
I installed and compiled GIT, regardless of the errors in the install guide.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I ran:<u></u><u></u></p><div style="border:dashed #2f6fab 1.0pt;padding:12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt;background:white">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.2pt;background:white;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:black">cd /usr/local/src<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.2pt;background:white;border:none;padding:0in">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:black">git clone git://<a href="http://git.freeswitch.org/freeswitch.git" target="_blank">git.freeswitch.org/freeswitch.git</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I went to:<u></u><u></u></p><div style="border:dashed #2f6fab 1.0pt;padding:12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt;background:white">
<pre style="line-height:13.2pt;background:white;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="color:black">cd /usr/local/src/freeswitch<u></u><u></u></span></pre></div><p class="MsoNormal">Ran:<u></u><u></u></p><div style="border:dashed #2f6fab 1.0pt;padding:12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt;background:white">
<pre style="line-height:13.2pt;background:white;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="color:black">./bootstrap.sh<u></u><u></u></span></pre></div><p class="MsoNormal">That required me to “yum install “  autoconf, automake and lib??? (I dont recall), then it would run.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">And tried:<u></u><u></u></p><div style="border:dashed #2f6fab 1.0pt;padding:12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt;background:white"><pre style="line-height:13.2pt;background:white;border:none;padding:0in">
<span style="color:black">./configure<u></u><u></u></span></pre></div><p class="MsoNormal">Which of course terminates with:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">configure: error: libtermcap, libcurses or libncurses are required!<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have “yum install”ed libtermcap, libcurse,libncurese,termcap,ncurses,curses and everything else I can possibly find a reference to.  That help a lot (a.k.a. NONE).  Now I get:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">configure: error: libtermcap, libcurses or libncurses are required!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have googled and read and searched.  I was happy to see where this was a known problem.  I was disappointed to see NO help on what to do since it was “fixed”.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am trying not to ask dumb questions, but I am struggling here.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It is possible for a mere mortal to install FreeSwitch on a new system?  Is there a set of install instructions that match the current realease?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> I am fighting the urge to throw Linux out the window and go with the Windows build.  I have made a living of MS products for over 20 years, but there seems to be nobody left there with a brain.  I am trying to move on.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sean<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><br>_________________________________________________________________________<br>

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