'How to' install localphone

[asilad]

I have stumbled across localphone.com, the cheapest telephone/voip services most suitable for my particular needs. For normal international telephone calls tfrom Egypt this service saves me an absolute fortune!
I now want to install the voip element of the service but being a linux newbie, what should be simple instructions to follow are just too vague. I need an in depth guide of how to install the following. Can anybody help please? The following can be found at localphone.com/downloads/linux

I have completed number one ok but from there onwards I need to know the 'how to'

1.
Download the Installer

When prompted, opt to save the Linux installer file to disk.
Save the tar ball.
2.
Extract the Application (how?)

When the download has completed:
1. Extract the localphone-linux-installer.tar.gz file (how?)
2. Create a ".localphone" directory in your home directory (how?)
3. Copy the provision.conf file from your extracted directory to the newly created ".localphone" directory (how?)
4. Now you can run the binary "localphone" file from your extracted directory to execute the Localphone softphone. (how?)
3.
Launch the Localphone Softphone (how?)
Enter your account details.

Enter your site username and password (or your SIP ID and SIP password). The application will then automatically configure itself and you can start making calls straight away.

[jmadero]

It looks like it's cheaper but...I would still suggest Skype because it's more stable, a lot more support, way easier to install and use and I know for a fact the quality is great.

[asilad]

It looks like it's cheaper but...I would still suggest Skype because it's more stable, a lot more support, way easier to install and use and I know for a fact the quality is great.

I already have skype installed and use it for both pc2phone and pc2pc. My wife and I are on very limited bandwidths due to our locations and costs and because of this the skype pc2pc is very patchy (uses a lot more b/w than messenger). I have already tried localphone very successfully for phone2phone service and it works very well.
The only reason I have been able to install skype on Linux is because of helpful advice received on sites such as this. I don't actually imagine the installation of the localphone service is going to be particularly difficult (so long as you know what you're doing!) and I am sure some knowledgeable person will be able to guide me through it. Having both systems installed will enable me to switch from one to the other depending on the qos at any particular time.
Costwise for me .... skype is 26c a minute and localphone 7.5c a minute. Add that up over a few hours and the reason I would like to install localphone speaks for itself.
Cheers, Asilad.

[jmadero]

Fair enough, here are the answers to your step:

Extract the localphone-linux-installer.tar.gz file (how?)

Depending on your distro you should just be able to right click and do "exract here". If not then you can open a terminal, go to the folder where it is downloded buy using the cd command (ie. cd /home/user/Desktop)

then do the following command:

tar xzvf file.tar.gz

2. Create a ".localphone" directory in your home directory (how?)

To create a directory simply go to your home directory (I don't know what version of Linux you are using so I can't say exactly how) then right click and do "create new folder" name that folder .localphone

you can also do from terminal by doing

mkdir /home/user/.localphone

where user is your username

3. Copy the provision.conf file from your extracted directory to the newly created ".localphone" directory (how?)

Go to the extracted folder from step 1, it will be in the same directory where the tar that you downloaded was, probably your desktop, open it, copy the file that it asks you to copy

Now go to your home folder, you need to make it so you can see hidden files (depends on your version of Linux, for Ubuntu you can do cntrl+h or on the top bar go to View -> Show Hidden Files

Find your .localphone folder, open the folder and paste the file into it

Now you can run the binary "localphone" file from your extracted directory to execute the Localphone softphone. (how?)

This one I'm a bit unsure of but there are a few possibilities, the files I talk about will be inside of the extracted folder named in #2 not in the .localphone that you created

1. There might be a file called "localphone.bin" or something like that, just double click it and see if you are given the option to run

2. open terminal, cd to the extracted folder and do ./localphone

Launch the Localphone Softphone (how?)

I'm assuming once you do #3 that something will come up. Otherwise, post and I'll see what I can do. I don't want to set up an account, that's the reason I can't test for myself. I apologize for that.