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Overview

I wanted to provide some brief instructions on installing the Blink SIP client on Linux since it is useful for running the Secure Calling Tutorial.

How to install Blink on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

Install some dependencies

  1. *Get latest Python 2.X
  2. Setup repo from here: http://projects.ag-projects.com/projects/documentation/wiki/Repositories
  3. In your terminal, run the following commands

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-sipsimple python-gnutls python-eventlib python-application python-cjson python-eventlet python-qt4 python-twisted-core python-zope.interface
If you have issues see: http://sipsimpleclient.org/projects/sipsimpleclient/wiki/SipInstallation

  1. Download Blink source code from http://download.ag-projects.com/BlinkQt
  2. In your terminal, extract the tar.gz file contents to a folder and then cd to that folder in the terminal
  3. Change directory into the Blink folder and run sudo python setup.py install

root@newtonr-laptop:/usr/src/blink-0.6.0# sudo python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_scripts
running install_lib
running install_scripts
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/blink to 755
running install_data
running install_egg_info
Removing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blink-0.6.0.egg-info
Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blink-0.6.0.egg-info
Run Blink!

  1. From the command line, run Blink by executing blink. 

root@newtonr-laptop:/usr/src/blink-0.6.0# blink
using set_wakeup_fd
"sni-qt/6493" WARN 08:11:15.444 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE
2. Blink should launch and show up within your graphical desktop.

Note

Blink doesn't appear to support call forwarding or call transfers, so don't expect to do anything too fancy!