Hi!
I am the one who wants to make cheap private international phone calls over IP. Not interested in receiving calls: I have a cell phone for this. Not intested in IAX/Asterix/etc...

What are the options:

1)Linphone: even after installing ffmpeg carefully, (which takes time!), slackbuild linphone did not compile successfully.
2)Ekiga: Needs gnome libraries. Even doing so, it is not fully operational. And Slackware is no more Gnome-free.
3)Twinkle: did not compile sucessfully.
4)Kiax: AIX phone only. No need.
5)Skype: Expensive. Almost same price as cell phone call. So what for? Only for IP to IP free calls. Which is 5% of my traffic only.
6)Gizmo: Very complicated when comes the time to top up on the go. Checks the IP address of the payment and doesn't accept payment from a different IP address. Thank you!
7)Twinkle. Need a special compiler to compile. Even with it installed, it does not compile sucessfully!

STOP. PLEASE!

Nothing works. Even if it does, it doesn't do the job one is asking for...

Solution:

If you still have 5 minutes of your time after all that waste...

http://www.sjphone.org/softphone/SJphoneLnx-299a.tar.gz

#cd PATHto/SJphoneLnx-299a.tar.gz

#tar xvfz SJphoneLnx-299a.tar.gz -C /usr/lib (System-wide installation)

$/usr/lib/SJphoneLnx-299a/sjphone

That's it! It works!

If you have a better solution, please let me know

JL

Try jitsi. Cross platform, no compiling required.

It's a bit of shame about twinkle; it used to be the best one of the bunch that I had tried. Frankly, I've *never* gotten Linphone to work (the way the author configures it is insane, IMO).

(Disclaimer: When I worked for these guys prior to them going out of business, it was on a java-based VoIP product. I could get Twinkle to work with our stuff and sipphone [as jitsi called itself in the beginning] almost worked.)

I use qutecom, and it works fine on slackware.

Linphone works for me.
It is simple to use.