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Just like any other software, installing freeswitch on ubuntu is a breeze. Just follow the set of instructions below and you will have a working VoIP switch in no time. First step in this process is to get the dependencies installed.

apt-get install build-essential 
apt-get install flex
apt-get install bison
apt-get install libncurses5-dev
apt-get install unixodbc-dev
apt-get install libnspr4
apt-get install autoconf 
apt-get install automake 
apt-get install libtool 
apt-get install libmudflap0-dev 
apt-get install libltdl3-dev

Although you can install all the above packages in one shot by typing package names in single line to apt-get, for clarity I've given them separately. Next step in the process is to get freeswitch. You can get the latest release from freeswitch webstite, type the following commands.

cd /usr/src/
wget http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.0.6.tar.gz
tar -zxvf freeswitch-1.0.6.tar.gz
cd freeswitch-1.0.6

At this point you can edit modules.conf in the freeswitch-1.0.6 directory to select the modules you like to compile and disable modules that you don't want. To select a module you need to uncomment (remove the # symbol before module name) and to deselect you need to comment out (add a # symbol before module name) Compiling freeswitch

./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make
make install

thats it, now you have freeswitch installed in /usr/local/freeswitch diretory. You can now run additional make commands displayed on your screen to install sounds and moh packages. Starting freeswitch

cd /usr/local/freeswitch/bin
./freeswitch 

will start freeswitch in foreground if you want freeswitch to run as daemon, you need to type the following command

./freeswitch -nc

you can add freeswitch to startup by adding following line to /etc/rc.local file before the exit 0 line

/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch -nc