[weenus500]

I thought I would save others a lot of trouble by posting this.

1. cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

2. create file centos-asterisk.repo with the following text:
[asterisk-tested]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Asterisk - Tested
baseurl=http://packages.asterisk.org/centos/$releasever/tested/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0
#gpgkey=http://packages.asterisk.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-Digium

[asterisk-current]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Asterisk - Current
baseurl=http://packages.asterisk.org/centos/$releasever/current/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
#gpgkey=http://packages.asterisk.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-Digium


3. create file centos-digium.repo with the follwoing text:
[digium-tested]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Digium - Tested
baseurl=http://packages.digium.com/centos/$releasever/tested/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0
#gpgkey=http://packages.digium.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-Digium

[digium-current]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Digium - Current
baseurl=http://packages.digium.com/centos/$releasever/current/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
#gpgkey=http://packages.digium.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-Digium


4. sudo yum update

5. take your choice of installing asterisk, asterisk_gui, or freepbx without having to install from scratch.

6. yum search pbx gives:
I thought this was a lot easier than install from tarball or source

asterisk16.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk16.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk-addons.i386 : Addons package for Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk-sounds.noarch : Sound files for the Asterisk PBX and telephony application and toolkit
freepbx.noarch : FreePBX
asterisk16.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk14.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk14-addons.i386 : Addons package for Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk16.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk14.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk16.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk-addons.i386 : Addons package for Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk16.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk14-addons.i386 : Addons package for Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk16-addons.i386 : Addons package for Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk14.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk14.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk16-addons.i386 : Addons package for Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk14.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk14.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX
asterisk16.i386 : Asterisk, The Open Source PBX

7. yum install asterisk16.i386 asterisk16-addons.i386 freepbx.noarch