# Asterisk Project : Installing Asterisk From Source

Added by malcolmd , edited by mdavenport on Sep 23, 2010

One popular option for installing Asterisk is to download the source code and compile it yourself. While this isn't as easy as using package management or using an Asterisk-based Linux distribution, it does let you decide how Asterisk gets built, and which Asterisk modules are built.

In this section, you'll learn how to download and compile the Asterisk source code, and get Asterisk installed.

## Comments:

Add a note about install-logrotate in or after Installing Initialization Scripts. Suggestion: To establish a standard rotation of the log files for Asterisk the install-logrotate installation will config the system software to compress, copy and rename your logs automatically. Posted by lathama at Dec 20, 2010 12:15
Added: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Installing+Initialization+Scripts Posted by mdavenport at Dec 20, 2010 16:34
Thanks, I think there is an extra * in the markup of the Installing Initialization Scripts Posted by lathama at Dec 20, 2010 17:31
Fixed. Posted by lmadsen at Dec 21, 2010 06:28
Whoops. Thanks Posted by mdavenport at Dec 21, 2010 08:45