HOWTO for Installing FreeSWITCH on RedHat, Fedora, CentOS

1. To Install 'FreeSWITCH' on CentOS/RedHat/Fedora
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Execute following commands at shell:
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Installing Dependencies {Require Internet}
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yum -y install autoconf automake libtool gcc-c++ ncurses-devel
yum -y make expat-devel zlib zlib-devel libjpeg-devel unixODBC-
devel
yum -y openssl-devel gnutls-devel libogg-devel libvorbis-devel
yum -y curl-devel libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel
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Download/Extract FreeSWITCH Source
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wget http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.0.6.tar.gz
tar -zxvf freeswitch-1.0.6.tar.gz
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Optional {to add OpenZAP support to FreeSWITCH}
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echo "../../libs/openzap/mod_openzap" >>
freeswitch-1.0.6/modules.conf
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Compiling/Installing FreeSWITCH
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cd freeswitch-1.0.6
./configure
make install
make cd-sounds-install
make cd-moh-install
make uhd-sounds-install
make uhd-moh-install
make hd-sounds-install
make hd-moh-install
make sounds-install
make moh-install
make mod_portaudio-install
make samples
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create symlink for main binaries, EZ-ACCESS
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#ln -s /usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch
/usr/local/bin/freeswitch
#ln -s /usr/local/freeswitch/bin/fs_cli /usr/local/bin/fs_cli

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Post Installation
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to launch app
#freeswitch
to launch app at background (no console)
#freeswitch -nc
to stop a running freeswitch instance
[] running foreground: > ... {i.e. 3 periods}
[] running background: # freeswitch -stop
to access cmd-line of any FreeSWITCH server #fs_cli
try commands like 'version','help'
to exit use 'fsctl shutdown' or '...'
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