Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Ekiga not launching

[Fabrice ALPHONSO <fabrice alphonso dyndns org>]

Le vendredi 21 mars 2008 à 12:38 -0500, Wendell a écrit :

Hi Wendell,
I CC: the ekiga mailing-list as this post is more related of ekiga's use
than a problem for dev.
Please follow up this discussion on Ekiga's user mailing-list. :)

> I am a noob and am running Ubuntu 7.10.
> I have been using Skype and saw that Ekiga was installed automatically. 
> I decided to try it but it will not launch.
> Possibly there are dependencies that were not loaded.

As far as i can see on my own 7.10, ekiga's version provided by ubuntu
repositories is 2.0.11, so there is a new version released since as the
current stable ekiga is 2.0.12.
you can find the sources on ekiga's website ( http://www.ekiga.org/
section download ). There was a time when we were able to provide
packages for several distributions, but it seems that the process to
build them is for now broken. You certainly should wait for official
ubuntu packages.
However if ekiga was installed thru the usual installing procedure in
your Ubuntu 7.10, all dependancies should have been satisfied.
So if ekiga is not starting there should be another cause.
Is there a popup window with an error message when you try to start
ekiga ?
If you launch it from inside a terminal, is there an error apparing on
it ?

> How can I add Ekiga site to the repositories so that I can get upgrades? 
> Or is that not the route to go?
> 
Hth,

> Wendell

Fabrice