Instal YATE

apt-get install build-essential

which installs:

binutils, cpp, dpkg-dev, g++, gcc, libc6-dev, libstdc++5-dev, 
linux-kernel-headers, make, patch, perl and perl-modules etc.

and depending upon your Debian version

cpp-3.x, gcc-3.x, g++-3.x

or

cpp-4.x, gcc-4.x, g++-4.x

apt-get install autoconf cvs sox
apt-get install kdoc 

Install the following also if you intend to use Yate as a VoIP client with Gtk interface.

apt-get install libgtk1.2-dev

and yes, you might want to get the latest Yate sources too:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@voip.null.ro:/home/cvsroot/private checkout yate

or checkout the latest trunk from svn to get yate 2.0, the latest source code seems to be only available via SVN, the CVS command above returns only yate 1.3

svn checkout http://voip.null.ro/svn/yate/trunk yate

And then make install stops before it is done installing the rest of the binaries.

./configure #should deal with this.

Size just after configure has done it's work:

kmant@dracula:~/yate> du -sh ../yate 4.3M yate