Download latest stable release (January, 2014) http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.2.17.tar.bz2 to /usr/src/.
I have the basic Debian 7.3 Wheezy installation.
I needed these dependences: apt-get install zlib zlib-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev libjpeg8-dev libcurses-perl libncurses5-dev libssl-dev
Then:
./configure
make install
make cd-sounds-ru-install
make cd-moh-ru-install
make cd-moh-install
Symlinks:
ln -s /usr/local/freeswitch/bin/fs_cli /usr/local/bin/fs_cli
ln -s /usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch /usr/local/bin/freeswitch
Fire!:
fs_cli -l 5