howto install latest nightly build of WENGO

[pau]

Hi,

wengo is a GPL option to skype. It works very fine but the latest deb package offered in their eb site is buggy; the sound for instance is not working at all.
If you want to use wengo you'll have to go to the bleeding edge and download one of the latest nightly builds. This script here below will install the latest nightly build of wengo in your home directory.

You'll need lynx, wget and gawk for it...

sudo apt-get install lynx wget gawk

To start
it just type ./Engega_wengo.sh in the directory ~USERNAME/wengo or click the icon.

To install just use the script as follows:

chmod u+x instal_wengo.sh && ./instal_wengo.sh

This is the script:

#!/bin/sh
clear;
echo -n "Installation latest nightly build of WENGO...";

echo -n "";

sleep 3;
lynx -dump http://download.wengo.com/nightlybuilds/binary/NG/GNULinux/rc2/ | tail -1 | gawk '{print $2}' > > /tmp/Wengo.txt&&
wget `cat /tmp/Wengo.txt`&&
tar xvfj wengophone*&&
rm wengophone*&&
mv wengo* $HOME/wengo&&
cd $HOME/wengo&&
wget www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/Engega_wengo.sh&&
chmod u+x Engega_wengo.sh&&
clear;
echo "The latest nightly build of WENGO has been installed in `whoami`/wengo To start it run ./Engega_wengo.sh or click the icon..."

enjoy...

[jis]

I think your script is outdated since there are newer versions of Wengo NG at
http://download.wengo.com/nightlybuilds/binary/NG/GNULinux/2.0/ than at http://download.wengo.com/nightlybuilds/binary/NG/GNULinux/rc2/.

BTW I downloaded WengoPhone-2.0-linux-bin-x86.tar.bz2 from http://www.wengo.com/index.php/mp_download_wp_lin and it does not work any better than the version installed from Ubuntu Dapper's repository :(

[Praxicoide]

I've just downloaded Wengo 2.1 through the latest nightly build and it really buggy, with none of the toolbars working and no way of making calls.

Is there anything I might be doing wrong?

[Praxicoide]

I tried with a 2.0 build and still no luck. Even before I log in it says "your profile could not be loaded."

I tried another profile and the same.

[solotim]

Why is it so complicated?
What you should do is download the wengophone 2.1 rc2 directly from wengo's website.
unpack it and run wengophone.sh.

that's all.

it works.

[lexarrow]

did that and I can't connect + my webcam doesn't work

[jis]

lexarrow, try deleting ~/.wengo and/or ~./wengophone and relogin in WengoPhone 2.1.

Couldn't make sound in test call (to 333) work anyway.