Twinkle 1.4.2 VoIP client in ubuntu / xubuntu 14.04?

[Louis Bouchard]

Hi,

Le 03/12/2014 10:15, Jackson Doak a écrit :
> I would suggest you try and find a new VOIP client, as twinkle is dead
> upstream and many depends are outdated.
> Maybe also ask the people who have mentioned helping in
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738469.
> The best way to continue to use the GUI would be to make a PPA with the
> packages that got removed, and whatever other changes are needed.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Markus Robert Kessler <
> ubuntu at dipl-ing-kessler.de> wrote:
> 
>> Dear developers,
>>
>> from the repositories of ubuntu / xubuntu 14.04, Twinkle 1.4.2 VoIP client
>> can be installed.
>>
>> Coming from Mandriva Linux, me and some colleagues are using Twinkle for
>> years now, because it is one of the most sophisticated VoIP clients, and
>> comes along with multi-line support and excellent speech quality.
>>
>> So there seems to be no alternative.
>>
>> Well, if you install this package, then unfortunately only the CLI version
>> will work, and no graphical user interface will be started at all.
>>
>> Asking why in the ubuntu newsgroup, alt.os.linux.ubuntu, some people tried
>> to state that Twinkle relies on QT v.3 libraries and is not compatible
>> with higher versions. This is what I also had to realise when trying to
>> compile it on Mandriva.
>>
>> But: Could Twinkle be compiled with statically linked QT-resources, so
>> that it can be added to the repository as a fully working package, not
>> depending on which QT libraries are installed?
>>
>> It's a great application and it would hurt a lot no longer having it.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> best regards,
>>
>> Markus
>>
>> (Developer for Perl- and Shell based applications,
>> Nokia Ulm, Germany)
>>
>>
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> 
> 

I have been a happy user of linphone for years after giving up on Twinkle.

HTH,

Kind regards,

...Louis

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