How can I install Gizmo?

White Spiral · 09-06-2005, 08:57 PM

http://www.gizmoproject.com/download.php

I want to install it, but it seems only a .deb is offered...

abisko00 · 09-07-2005, 03:52 AM

There is a tool called 'alien', that will allow conversion of deb packages in other formats, but I don't know if this will work properly.

drjeep · 09-24-2005, 04:27 AM

I got Gizmo running on Fedora Core 4 by manually extracting the files from the debian packages (gizmo, libsipphone, bonjour) and symlinking /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0 -> /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1

Hope this helps

mammlouk · 09-29-2005, 10:53 PM

I was able to achieve the same thing in Suse 10.0, should work in any other Suse also. The only difference was that I converted the .deb to .rpm with alien and installed everything with YaST. I did the same sym linking.

Code:

su
[enter root password]
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libexpat.so.0 libexpat.so.1

Then ignore the error about libexpat.so.1 in YaST when installing the libsipphone package.

Now you can run gizmo by just typing 'gizmo' in a terminal, or you can always make a desktop or menu link for it.

Happy SIPing!

Fox7777 · 07-17-2006, 03:10 PM

Gizmo for SUSE can be downloaded from http://www.gizmoproject.com/download-linux.html under SUSE. Download the libsipphoneapi and then Gizmo.

compat-expat1 is an rpm you need to install for Gizmo to launch so we installed it from http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/ftp.ope...5.8-6.i586.rpm
Then we entered gizmo -m /dev/dsp1 -s /dev/dsp1 in the command line which successfully launched Gizmo but we still don't have sound on our Plantronics USB headset. In Skype on SUSE 10.1 changing to /dev/dsp1 gets us sound on our headset so we can make phone calls. Gizmo sound on USB headsets is apparently still unresolved as of July 17, 2006. Our solution was to get an old 2 plug headset which plugged into the microphone/speaker jacks and then we were able to make phone calls on Gizmo.

We had the unresolved USB headset sound problem on SUSE 10.1, SUSE 10.2 A2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.