Hi everyone

i have downloaded asterisk-1.4.4.tar.gz ...
when i tried to install it i got the following error message during configuring

[root@linux asterisk-1.4.4]# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
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checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
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checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
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configure: error: *** termcap support not found


Please help me to install Asterisk ..............!!!!!!!!

THANKS IN ADVANCE

bye

unrelated to networking. moved to Linux - newbie.

well is it truly missing (zaptel.h) ?
if it isn't on your system ,make sure you have zaptel-devel or -debuginfo (depending on your distro)

My understanding is that zaptel.h is not required to compile asterisk. It seems to be failing on the termcap issue. Do you have the kernel sources? Some apps require headers that are bundled that way.