System information

Figure 3-2. menuselect using the curses interface
Installing Dependencies for newt-Based menuselect
To get the newt-based menuselect working, you need to have the libnewt development
libraries installed:
• CentOS: sudo yum install libnewt-devel
• Ubuntu: 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.<your version>/
$ cd menuselect
$ make clean
$ ./configure
$ cd ..
$ make menuselect
After that you should have the newt-based interface available to you.
Using menuselect
Run the following commands to start menuselect:
$ cd ~/src/asterisk-complete/asterisk/1.8.<your version>/
$ make menuselect
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