HOWTO install Gizmo (similar to Skype but sip open standard)

[celticmonkey]

Gizmo (http://www.gizmoproject.com) has just released their sip phone client as an alpha for linux. I've installed it and it seems to work. Obviously, it's an alpha, not a complete project, but I was able to make a call. It didn't seem to import my contact list and it can't be minimized to an icon like Gaim or Skype. Nevetheless, it looks promising. Early adopters may want to check it out. It didn't seem to cause any instability to ubuntu.

Gizmo is a sipphone client that uses an open standard like linphone. It's like Skype. You can buy credit to call old-school landlines or buy a real number so landlines can call your computer.

Here's an interesting quote from Google Talk's webside: (http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html):
"... we are working closely with Earthlink and Sipphone to federate EarthLink's Vling service and Sipphone's Gizmo Project with the Google Talk service as quickly as possible, while offering the best possible user experience."

I've used Gizmo in Windows(tm) and it appears to have a more extensive list of call in numbers for sale than Skype, although I only see the call out feature in the linux alpha. (For landlines I mean.)

Here's how you can install it if you want to test it:


$ wget -c http://www.gizmoproject.com/download/bonjour_107.1-0.0.0.50.linspire0.2_i386.deb
$ wget -c http://www.gizmoproject.com/download/libsipphoneapi_0.78.20050817.1-1_i386.deb
$ wget -c http://www.gizmoproject.com/download/gizmo_0.8.0.6-1_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i bonjour_107.1-0.0.0.50.linspire0.2_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libsipphoneapi_0.78.20050817.1-1_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i gizmo_0.8.0.6-1_i386.deb

[varunus]

Those debs seem meant for debian and linspire...do they install without complaints? Do they work? I know some debian debs depend on a newer libc6 and can break Ubuntu...

[rwabel]

Those debs seem meant for debian and linspire...do they install without complaints? Do they work? I know some debian debs depend on a newer libc6 and can break Ubuntu...
works fine!

[celticmonkey]

The alpha release is in fact for debian and linspire. The notes above are for the debian install (even though one of the deb packages is weirdly named linspire.) It is a bit crazy downloading an untested alpha product for debian and installing it in ubuntu. It's not even a beta yet. I should have written PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK somewhere. Nevertheless, I installed it as above and it works as well an alpha can be expected to. The install doesn't cause any broken packages or unresolved dependencies. I haven't noticed any problems with ubuntu since.

[lao_V]

I get the following error:

vishal@sheep:~/Downloads$ gizmo
Debug: gizmo_prefs_init
Debug: gizmo_core_init
Debug: gizmo_gtk_stock_init: Loading 64 images
sipphoneapi_new: sipapi ptr: 137098352
Segmentation fault

Anyone know why?

[traherom]

Wow... I was going to post almost the exact same thing yesterday, but I couldn't get on the forums. :)

Yep, it works fine, by the way.

[Weav]

I've got Gizmo up and running is there anyway to connect to google's talk server? Since googletalk does not run in linux yet.

Thanks

[idn]

This app looks amazing, no moe messing around trying to get skype to work on my PC and it uses SIP!

I will try it when I get home, does it use gtk or qt?

[gsuveg]

i cant register a new account with linux client. anyone have idea why ?
it write:
...
Debug: on_login_button_clicked
Debug: anim start
Debug: registration_cb: Success: 1 Msg:
Debug: gizmo_account_new: new account w/ id: 0
Debug: gizmo_account_new: Set user_agent_id: 0
Debug: login_thread_do
Debug: login_cb: Success: 0 Msg: Login failed! We could not validate your username and password!
Debug: anim stop
Debug: gizmo_account_destroy
Debug: gizmo_core_cleanup

[idn]

Awesome piece of software

[rykel]

I get the following error:

vishal@sheep:~/Downloads$ gizmo
Debug: gizmo_prefs_init
Debug: gizmo_core_init
Debug: gizmo_gtk_stock_init: Loading 64 images
sipphoneapi_new: sipapi ptr: 137098352
Segmentation fault

Anyone know why?

i have exactly the same error!

the debs installed just fine, but i get seg fault when i try to run gizmo... see this:

rykel@ubuntu:~$ gizmo
(gizmo:27329): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib
(gizmo:27329): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers
Debug: gizmo_prefs_init
Debug: gizmo_core_init
Debug: gizmo_gtk_stock_init: Loading 64 images
sipphoneapi_new: sipapi ptr: 137014752
Segmentation fault


perhaps our libc++ (?) or watever is of the wrong version??

btw, do u know if i can use Linphone to connect to my Gizmo account, so tat people can still call me in the meantime? (just like using Gaim to connect to Google Talk)

[Jad]

I've install it, and it's running, the only main problem is you cannot login, the screen will stuck at loading user interface process, I've contact Gizmo support, and they promised to fix this bug in their next release.

just note guys to keep sending your reports to gizmo project support, we really should appreciate their work to have linux version, one last thing consider it's alpha version.

[picturesqueweb]

I'm running it here (KDE) with no problems at all.

[sickdude]

i have it running and it looks very good.

to bad that most people dont use this, and skype is more popular, dont know if you can phone skype users? anyway i hope googletalk will use this in anyway that way i can (google)talk to winblowz users :p

[rwabel]

i have it running and it looks very good.

to bad that most people dont use this, and skype is more popular, dont know if you can phone skype users? anyway i hope googletalk will use this in anyway that way i can (google)talk to winblowz users :p
no it's not possible to call sykpe users via the skype network, only over the PSTN gateway. But JaJah claims to be able, but they've not yet a linux version out

[cvmostert]

My problem is that most people I know use only MSN and Skype if i am lucky... so my hope of using something line gizmo or gnomemessenger is short sighted..

[idn]

Yeah I am the same, it would be great if all my non techie friends switched away from msn and jabber, but thats not going to happen any time soon :(

[LordMau]

hi trying out the latest gizmo at this time on dapper but keep running into this message when running the terminating:

snd_mixer_selem_get_capture_volume_range: Assertion `elem' failed.


a quick google shows that some users install the OSS version of the libsipphoneapi package on gizmo's site in leiu of the ALSA. So far I have to use aoss to make it run, but I' curious why the supposedly more apt alsa version of libsipphoneapi fails.

[tomjennings]

Awesome piece of software

Just FYI, on this very old thread -- now, March 2009, the binary for download from gizmoproject is 2 years old (nov 2007), and it does not install on 64-bit arches. Nothing but silence in gizmo forums on new binaries. Mac, win updates this very month.

So it appears that gizmo has abandoned linux.