Package Details: blink 5.6.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/blink.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: blink
Description: Fully featured, easy to use SIP client with a Qt based UI
Upstream URL: https://icanblink.com
Keywords: SIP VoIP
Licenses: GPL-3+
Submitter: ogarcia
Maintainer: josemslopes
Last Packager: josemslopes
Votes: 13
Popularity: 0.000309
First Submitted: 2016-06-18 13:13 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2023-08-03 13:02 (UTC)

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bsdice commented on 2020-04-30 17:39 (UTC)

@mozo See my comment on 2020-04-30 19:24

Copy all the gibberish into data.txt using copy/paste.

bsdice commented on 2020-04-30 17:38 (UTC)

I just noticed there is a copy paste error in last line, of course it should read

cd blink && makepkg -Ccf && sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz

(omitting --asdeps.)

Anyway I hope this is of use to some freaks out there working in the field or on vacation, using their Linux laptops connected to some corporate or upstream SIP telephony provider as a phone.

mozo commented on 2020-04-30 17:38 (UTC)

Where I can download the base64-encoded tar.gz from?

bsdice commented on 2020-04-30 17:32 (UTC) (edited on 2020-04-30 21:55 (UTC) by bsdice)

Edited: See fixed HOWTO.txt above.

Packages carry the extra group "custom" which I use locally to discern my own creations from regular packages, and via pacman.conf to prevent unwanted upgrades.

bsdice commented on 2020-04-30 17:24 (UTC) (edited on 2020-04-30 17:40 (UTC) by bsdice)

The mentioned blink321.tgz, base64-encoded. Copy only gibberish below into a data.txt file.

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bsdice commented on 2020-04-30 17:23 (UTC) (edited on 2020-04-30 17:33 (UTC) by bsdice)

With python2 on its way out at least on Arch, this package is seriously broken. As you can see above, three packages have gone missing because python2 support was dropped in them. AUR-packages are also falling apart, because some need an update, some do not yet exist. All in all the application needs to be adapted for python3 to take away most of this pain.

Yet due to its usage of PJSIP, blink is still the king of open-source SIP telephony clients on Linux. It supports TLS/SRTP and does work very good with speakers and microphone on a laptop. Other clients fail miserably one way or the other with echo problems requiring a headset, serious configuration issues, code base won't compile on modern Arch, or something else. Even MicroSIP, a Windows application, works better in Wine than all the rest. And I really tried them all: Ekiga, Jami, KPhone, QuteCom, Twinkle, Yate, maybe even a few more.

I will upload a ~8KB base64-encoded tar.gz here or on pastebin with this content:

$ tar cvzf blink321.tgz blink/HOWTO.txt blink/blink/sip-uri-history.patch blink/*/PKGBUILD

blink/*/PKGBUILD blink/HOWTO.txt blink/blink/sip-uri-history.patch blink/blink/PKGBUILD blink/python2-application/PKGBUILD blink/python2-cachetools/PKGBUILD blink/python2-eventlib/PKGBUILD blink/python2-gmpy2/PKGBUILD blink/python2-google-api-core/PKGBUILD blink/python2-google-api-python-client/PKGBUILD blink/python2-google-auth-httplib2/PKGBUILD blink/python2-google-auth/PKGBUILD blink/python2-googleapis-common-protos/PKGBUILD blink/python2-msrplib/PKGBUILD blink/python2-oauth2client/PKGBUILD blink/python2-pytest-localserver/PKGBUILD blink/python2-rsa/PKGBUILD blink/python2-sipsimple/PKGBUILD

It will show anyone interested how to build the latest package successfully. Generating an AUR-capable PKGBUILD is left as an exercise to the maintainer or proficient AUR-user.

The tar.gz is examinable by doing (put all text into a file data.txt):

cat data.txt | tr -d ' ' | base64 -d | tar tz

Swap "tar tz" for "tar xvz" to extract.

cmonty14 commented on 2020-04-30 13:41 (UTC) (edited on 2020-04-30 14:21 (UTC) by cmonty14)

Hi, I have checked the dependencies of Debian package (3.2.1buster), and the dependencies are different:

/# apt-cache depends blink blink Depends: python Depends: python Depends: <python:any> python Depends: <python:any> python Depends: libc6 Depends: libvncclient1 Depends: libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 Depends: python-application Depends: python-cjson Depends: python-enum34 Depends: python-eventlib Depends: python-googleapi Depends: python-lxml Depends: python-oauth2client Depends: python-pyqt5 Depends: python-pyqt5.qtsvg Depends: python-pyqt5.qtwebkit Depends: python-sipsimple Depends: python-twisted-core Depends: python-zope.interface Depends: x11vnc

Would it make sense to modify the PGKBUILD to include same dependencies?

mozo commented on 2020-03-28 14:11 (UTC) (edited on 2020-03-28 14:11 (UTC) by mozo)

Thank you, it looks fine :)

Fortunately there is a flathub package already and it's working fine: https://github.com/syco/flathub/tree/blink

Ashark commented on 2020-03-28 13:19 (UTC)

@mozo I have no idea, but probably try twinkle-qt5 instead?

mozo commented on 2020-03-17 21:25 (UTC) (edited on 2020-03-17 21:25 (UTC) by mozo)

python2-application, python2-zope-interface, and python2-twisted are missing. How to install Blink, any ideas?

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