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Xten X-lite install on Ubuntu 9.04


Installing Xten X-lite on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.
Xten X-lite
The other day I was looking for a soft phone on my Ubuntu 9.04 desktop, and am used to X-lite on my windows machines, but have not found a soft phone that i like on Linux yet. Ekiga is to commercial, and Twinkle very basic. So I decided to try the Xten X-lite install on my Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope desktop. I ran into so issues, and have provided instructions for a Xten X-lite install on Ubuntu 9.04. Please follow my steps closely, and your Xten X-lite Ubuntu 9.04 setup will be completed in no time.

1.) Aquire Xten X-lite from Counterpaths website.

$ wget http://counterpath.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/X-Lite_Install.tar.gz

2.) Untar X-lite_install.tar.gz for use.

$ tar -xzvf X-Lite_Install.tar.gz

This will create a xten-xlite directory with a README file, and the xtensoftphone binary.

3.) Install libstdc++5 which is required to run the xtensoftphone binary.

$ sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

4.) Start the Xten X-lite software on Ubuntu 9.04 and configure it for your phone system.

$ xten-xlite/xtensoftphone

I was not very pleased with this version of Xten X-lite for Linux, but I do like the windows version, and I guess I will be sticking to my twinkle soft phone for now.  When Counterpath gets off it’s butt and builds a newer version of the X-lite for Linux I will try to install it again on my Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop. Please let me know if you have any questions or issues with these instructions and feel free to look at some of my other pages. Nvidia 6200 Xorg.conf with Twinview setup Ubuntu 9.04 Juanty Jackalope or Ubuntu 9.04 BIND DNS Caching server

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  1. #1 by Pierre Asselin on August 19, 2009 - 4:23 pm

    Thanks for putting the instructions online, worked right away. I have the Mac version, it does seem better but I’ll give it a try.

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  2. #2 by Geoffrey on December 26, 2009 - 1:51 am

    Hi ,

    Thanks for your instruction and maybe you can further assist… I try to follow your instruction but “…Package libstdc++5 is not available…” (full text below)

    Can you please provide any further advice?

    Geoffrey.
    geoffrey@geoffrey-desktop ~ $ wget http://counterpath.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/X-Lite_Install.tar.gz
    –2009-12-26 17:38:42– http://counterpath.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/X-Lite_Install.tar.gz
    Resolving counterpath.s3.amazonaws.com… 207.171.181.231
    Connecting to counterpath.s3.amazonaws.com|207.171.181.231|:80… connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
    Length: 2094582 (2.0M) [application/x-gzip]
    Saving to: `X-Lite_Install.tar.gz’

    100%[======================================>] 2,094,582 393K/s in 7.3s

    2009-12-26 17:38:50 (281 KB/s) – `X-Lite_Install.tar.gz’ saved [2094582/2094582]

    geoffrey@geoffrey-desktop ~ $ tar -xzvf X-Lite_Install.tar.gz
    xten-xlite/README
    xten-xlite/xtensoftphone
    geoffrey@geoffrey-desktop ~ $ sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
    [sudo] password for geoffrey:
    Sorry, try again.
    [sudo] password for geoffrey:
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Package libstdc++5 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source
    E: Package libstdc++5 has no installation candidate
    geoffrey@geoffrey-desktop ~ $ xten-xlite/xtensoftphone
    xten-xlite/xtensoftphone: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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    • #3 by Darrell on December 27, 2009 - 6:03 am

      Your best bet is to symlink the libstdc++.so.6 to libstdc++.so.5. Or compile it.

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      • #4 by Geoffrey on December 29, 2009 - 12:05 am

        Hi Darrell,

        Thanks for taking the time to reply and point me in right direction.

        Being a relative newbie I didn’t really understand, but I was able to find http://lj4newbies.blogspot.com/2009/12/fixing-libstdc5-problem-in-ubuntu-910.html

        Those instructions got me set up ok, and then I just had to work out how to configure the audio preferences, which were not what I expected them to be, and are different to what I use for Skype, but with trial and error I got there.

        The audio setup that worked was…

        Speakers… default – OR – AD198x Analog (DUPLEX) (OSS) – BUT NOT – /dev/dsp1

        Microphone – (Logitech USB Microphone) – /dev/dsp1 BUT NOT – defauly – NOR – AD198x Analog (DUPLEX) (OSS)

        This was with sound preference settings –

        Device – AK5370 – with – Profile – Analog mono input

        Input – AK5370

        Output – Internal audio digital stereo (IEC 958)

        I have just made my first call out on the X-lite softphone on my Linux Mint Helena (standard) system.

        I appreciate your help.

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  3. #5 by madhav on May 7, 2010 - 12:21 pm

    hi

    Thank u for ur valuable instructions..coz i don’t know Linux… but today i installed xlite in ubantu 9.4.. thanks a lot..

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