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Asterisk works with most Linux distributions. Many distributions such as RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Mandrake and Gentoo have all been used successfully by the developers. If you find something doesn't work on any particular system, you may want to file a bug report. See the section regarding filing a bug report.
Asterisk is designed to work on Linux kernel version 2.4, however there is some support for kernel 2.6. If you are trying to build a stable system, it is recommended that you use kernel version 2.4. The following sections will assume you are running on a 2.4 kernel based system.
Previously there were some packages which were requirements to install Asterisk such as readline and readline-devel that are no longer required. As well there is no special hardware required such as a soundcard. The only required package is Asterisk itself. If you are using Digium hardware, you will need the zaptel package. For T1 and E1 interfaces the libpri package is required. Bison is required to compile Asterisk, the ncurses and ncurses-devel packages are required if you wish to build the newt tools (e.g. astman).
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