MXIE VoIP phone system running on Ubuntu (8.04)
Friday, May 30th, 2008We’ve just installed a new VoIP phone system called MXIE in our office. In order to make it work you need to hook your computer to a special kind of phone with a network cable and install a piece of software for configuring and managing the device. There are installation files available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. As I recently switched to a Dell Ubuntu laptop (at least for some time), I was interested in a .deb package. Unfortunately, the MXIE is officially available only for Red Hat and SUSE Linux operating systems, hence the only option they give Linux users is an rpm.
Below are the steps to prepare Ubuntu 8.04 for MXIE:
1. Convert the rpm file to a deb one with a tool called Alien. Alien is available in the Ubuntu Package Manager and the conversion runs smoothly with the following command:
$ alien -d [PATH_TO_MXIE_RPM]/mxie-3.2.10-0.i386.rpm
2. Launch Synaptic Package Manager and make sure libstdc++5 has been installed.
3. Open terminal and run the program:
$ mxie
I noticed the default application font was pretty large and clunky so I went to User preferences, selected “Appearance” and amended the size.