HowTo install Ekiga packages

From Ekiga

This page informs you about how to install binary packages of Ekiga from your Unix distributor (GNU/Linux, BSDs, OpenSolaris etc.) Note that there is a different page to download for Windows.

You can choose instead to download binary SVN snapshots, or sources and compile them.

This page is Work in progress.

Please choose your distribution below and follow the instructions.

Contents 1 Packages installation 1.1 Ubuntu 1.1.1 10.04 Lucid Lynx (Long Term Support) 1.1.2 9.10 Karmic Koala 1.1.3 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope 1.1.4 8.04 Hardy Heron (Long Term Support) 1.2 Debian 1.2.1 Sid, all architectures 1.2.2 Lenny x86 (amd64 and i386) 1.3 Trisquel 1.3.1 3.0 (dwyn) 1.4 Fedora 1.4.1 F13 1.4.2 F12 1.4.3 F11 1.5 OpenSuse 1.5.1 11.1 1.6 Gentoo 1.7 Mandriva 1.7.1 ... 1.8 Slackware 1.9 NetBSD 1.10 OpenBSD 1.10.1 OpenBSD 4.6 1.10.2 OpenBSD 4.7 1.10.3 for all OpenBSDs 1.11 OpenSolaris 2 Run Ekiga 3 Where to get HELP?

Packages installation

Ubuntu

10.04 Lucid Lynx (Long Term Support)

Latest Ekiga 3.2.6 is available in Ubuntu repositories. A testing version with a patch for some NAT traversal issues (fix STUN support for RTP streams) is available here for Lucid.

9.10 Karmic Koala

Latest Ekiga 3.2.6 is available here for Karmic. A testing version with a patch for some NAT traversal issues (fix STUN support for RTP streams) is available here for Karmic.

9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

Latest Ekiga 3.2.6 is available here for Jaunty. A testing version with a patch for some NAT traversal issues (fix STUN support for RTP streams) is available here for Jaunty.

8.04 Hardy Heron (Long Term Support)

Ubuntu 8.04 ships with Ekiga version 2.0.12, please upgrade.

• Run Ekiga.

Debian

Sid, all architectures

Generally, the latest version of ekiga is available on debian soon after release. You can install it as any other debian package, with aptitude install ekiga.

Lenny x86 (amd64 and i386)

Ekiga 3 is already available in sid.

Additionally, Ekiga 3.2.5 has been backported to lenny (debian stable). To use it, become root and:

• Add the repository to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://blaniel.free.fr/debian/lenny-backports/ ./

• Install it:

apt-get update
apt-get install ekiga

• You can also install the non-free plugins (iLBC, H263-1998, MP4V-ES, H264):

apt-get install libopal3.6.4-plugins-nonfree

Trisquel

3.0 (dwyn)

Latest Ekiga 3.2.6 is available here. You must choose "Jaunty" if you use Trisquel 3.0. This repository should work for Trisquel as well as for Ubuntu.

Fedora

F13

Ekiga 3.2.7 is in Fedora updates-testing repositories.

• Run ekiga.

F12

Ekiga 3.2.7 is in Fedora updates-testing repositories.

• Run ekiga.

F11

Ekiga 3.2.7 is in Fedora updates-testing repositories.

• Run ekiga.

OpenSuse

11.1

OpenSuse 11.1 ships with Ekiga 3.0.1

• Run ekiga.

Gentoo

ebuild: Ekiga 3.2.6

Mandriva

...

??

• Run ekiga.

Slackware

Ekiga 3.2.4

Slackbuild scripts for Ekiga, Opal and PTLib: http://slackware-hrvatska.org/slackbuilds/

Packages built with these scripts are tested on Slackware -current and 12.2.

(libsigc++ is also required)

NetBSD

Please use http://pkgsrc.se/net/ekiga (Ekiga 3.2.5) and http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/net/ekiga/README.html.

OpenBSD

• install package:

OpenBSD 4.6

$ pkg_add -v ekiga-2.0.12p18.tgz

OpenBSD 4.7

$ pkg_add -v ekiga-2.0.12p21.tgz

for all OpenBSDs

• or built it on your own:

$ cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome/ekiga
$ make
$ make install

• Run ekiga.

http://openports.se/x11/gnome/ekiga latest port of ekiga (supplied by openbsd)

OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris Nevada: Please read those instructions first. Afterwards, download ekiga-3.0.0-snv-i386-pkg.gz. (Contributed by Elaine Xiong.)

Run Ekiga

Now, give it a try, open a Terminal and type:

$ ekiga

If you have an error about GConf, this will likely be solved by doing this: I have GConf errors when I start Ekiga. Then restart ekiga in a Terminal by typing: $ ekiga

When starting Ekiga for the first time the Configuration Assistant will show automatically.

Where to get HELP?

See FAQ#Where_can_I_get_help?.