Installing Dependencies for newt-Based menuselect Asterisk

To get the newt-based menuselect working, you need to have the libnewt development libraries installed:

sudo yum install libnewt-devel

sudo apt-get install libnewt-dev

If you’ve previously used menuselect with the curses interface, you need to rebuild. You can do this with the following commands:

$ cd ~/src/asterisk-complete/asterisk/1.8./
$ cd menuselect
$ make clean
$ ./configure
$ cd ..
$ make menuselect

After that you should have the newt-based interface available to you. Using menuselectRun the following commands to start menuselect:

$ cd ~/src/asterisk-complete/asterisk/1.8./
$ make menuselect

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After: