To install from source ======================= Step 1. Build makefile. autoreconf -if ./configure Step 2. Add yum repository for dependencies There are libraries that are not available in common repositories that you'll need to to install. There's a file you can add to your system that will allow it to pull dependecies from the sipfoundry sudo 'make repofile > /etc/yum.repos.d/sipxecs.repo' Step 3. Install missing dependencies make sipx.list-missings-deps | xargs sudo yum install Step 4. Build and install. Make sure you have permission to directory listed in --prefix= sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/sipx sudo chown $USER:$USER /usr/local/sipx make all-install Step 5. To run. NOTE: This will run as the user you are currently looged-in as, even though you are starting w/root permissions sudo /usr/local/sipx/bin/sipxecs-setup sudo /usr/local/sipx/etc/init.d/sipxecs start