Re: newbie

Hi,

Ekiga is not ready for H323, unfortunately.  I tried it once with an 
H323 equipment in France and it did not work.  There are still bugs 
which make it unusable.

French researchers have access to a very easy to use videoconferencing 
system, https://rendez-vous.renater.fr.  You have access when they 
invite you for a given videoconference.  You just need a browser, no 
need of plugins.  I regularly use it and it works pretty well.

Kind regards,
Eugen

On 17/09/2019 15:30, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Bret,
> 
> thanks for your reply. Of course I am already a Skype user. But I am
> specifically interested in finding some open source software that can
> connect to existing H.323 teleconferencing equipment.
> 
> Occasionally someone requires this. For example, this week I must
> participate remotely in a Ph.D. defense in France and the use of Skype
> has been specifically forbidden. (Maybe for ideological reasons, as
> you say, or more likely, because it is unreliable enough that people
> usually spend most of their time worrying about resuming dropped
> calls, rather than getting on with the meeting).  In that situation, I
> usually have to use some proprietary Cisco client, but if a Linux
> solution exists, that would be great.
> 
> There seem to exist some H.323 libraries, such as H323Plus, but I
> cannot find any working software that actually uses those libraries.
> 
> It is not a problem for me to use software that is no longer being
> actively developed. If it worked in 2012, it must in principle still
> work now. So if there is some way to get Ekiga, or something similar,
> to work, I would not mind using it.
> 
> Thanks, -- Peter
> 
> Bret Busby via ekiga-list wrote:
>>
>> On 17/09/2019, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> this is a newbie question. I am trying to install Ekiga on an Ubuntu
>>> 19.04 system. I ran into several problems:
>>>
>>> * there doesn't seem to be an ekiga package in Ubuntu 19.04. At any
>>>    rate, "apt install ekiga" said there was no such package.
>>>
>>> * I downloaded the sources. "configure" complained about a missing
>>>    Boost library, so I installed it with "apt install libboost-dev".
>>>    Now I get the following:
>>>
>>> checking for boostlib >= 1.34... yes
>>> checking whether the Boost::Signals library is available... yes
>>> configure: error: Could not find a version of the library!
>>>
>>>    Since the previous two answers were "yes", I am not sure what is
>>>    missing on the last line, nor how to install it. I'm not sure what
>>>    "the library" is, if it is not "boostlib >= 1.34" or
>>>    "Boost::Signals".
>>>
>>> Do you have some up-to-date installation instructions? I did check
>>> the wiki at
>>> "http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Installing_Ekiga_on_Linux", but it
>>> hasn't been updated since 2013 (the Ubuntu instructions date to 2011).
>>>
>>> Or if this project is dead, is there a replacement that you can
>>> recommend?
>>>
>>> Thanks, -- Peter
>>>
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I believe that you are better not trying to install Ekiga, especcially
>> as a new user.
>>
>> No new development is being done, and, Ekiga is no longer fully
>> supported, insofar as I am aware.
>>
>> Whilst some people have an ideological objection to it, because it is
>> now owned and operated by Microsoft, and, also, its functionality has
>> been progressively reduced, over the years, since Microsoft took it
>> over, I recommend trying Skype, which is available for Ubuntu Linux,
>> of which, I currently run UbuntuMATE 16.04 (as my preferred OS) and
>> 18.04; both are LTS versions.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Bret Busby
>> Armadale
>> West Australia
>> ..............
>>
>> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>>   you'll know what the answer means."
>> - Deep Thought,
>>   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>>   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>>   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>>   written by Douglas Adams,
>>   published by Pan Books, 1992
>>
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