# 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.