Precise and Blink (sip client)
My favorite SIP client is Blink. It offers the most versatile conferencing call, is easiest of set up and offers economical VOIP to landline/cellphone rates.
Checking the icanblink.com Linux repositories, I found that a Precise build wasn't on the site. Rather than wait I decided that there probably was little if any difference between Blink for Oneiric and the future one for Precise. So, ran the following wget and apt-key commands:
and edited /etc/apt/sources.list to add:
and then did
to install Blink.
I didn't want to go through the manual configuration process to set up Blink, so I fired up my old Sony laptop, renamed ~/.blink to ~/temp_blink and then copied it to my dropbox folder. Almost instantly a notification appeared on this laptop that 21 files had been added to my dropbox account. I opened up my dropbox folder with Dolphin and drug temp_blink to ~/, and then renamed it to ~/.blink.
Then I opened Blink and all my configurations, settings, contacts and such were setting in Blink waiting to be used. I gave my wife's cell phone a buzz but she couldn't hear me. I opened the "Devices" menu and changed the input and ouputs to "Pulse". Now she could hear me.
I re-edited /etc/apt/sources.list and commented out the Oneiric line pointing to Blink's repository and saved it. Then I redid sudo apt-get update.
Life is good.:cool:
EDIT: Another reason I forgot to mention is that Blink automatically, if you allow it, connects to your Google account and downloads all contact information that has valid phone numbers in the contact info.
Checking the icanblink.com Linux repositories, I found that a Precise build wasn't on the site. Rather than wait I decided that there probably was little if any difference between Blink for Oneiric and the future one for Precise. So, ran the following wget and apt-key commands:
Code:
wget http://download.ag-projects.com/agp-debian-gpg.key sudo apt-key add agp-debian-gpg.key
Code:
deb http://ag-projects.com/ubuntu oneiric main
Code:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install blink
I didn't want to go through the manual configuration process to set up Blink, so I fired up my old Sony laptop, renamed ~/.blink to ~/temp_blink and then copied it to my dropbox folder. Almost instantly a notification appeared on this laptop that 21 files had been added to my dropbox account. I opened up my dropbox folder with Dolphin and drug temp_blink to ~/, and then renamed it to ~/.blink.
Then I opened Blink and all my configurations, settings, contacts and such were setting in Blink waiting to be used. I gave my wife's cell phone a buzz but she couldn't hear me. I opened the "Devices" menu and changed the input and ouputs to "Pulse". Now she could hear me.
I re-edited /etc/apt/sources.list and commented out the Oneiric line pointing to Blink's repository and saved it. Then I redid sudo apt-get update.
Life is good.:cool:
EDIT: Another reason I forgot to mention is that Blink automatically, if you allow it, connects to your Google account and downloads all contact information that has valid phone numbers in the contact info.
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