With lots of help, particularly from hata_ph, I have been able to get linphone 3.6.1 to the point where it is works, at least its most significant parts work. I changed quite a few things in this process (I didn't get the name Sledgehammer for nothing).
Now, ETM (sudo easy_install -U etm if setuptools is installed) won't load. Big problem for me as I use ETM constantly. Here is the error message:
vector:/~
johwhi:$ etm_qt.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/etm_qt.py", line 5, in <module>
pkg_resources.run_script('etm-qt==2.1.5', 'etm_qt.py')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 489, in run_script
self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1214, in run_script
exec script_code in namespace, namespace
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/etm_qt-2.1.5-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/etm_qt.py", line 8, in <module>
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/etmQt/etmData.py", line 17, in <module>
RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v9.0 to v9.1 but the PyQt4.QtGui module requires API v8.1
vector:/~
Any suggestions?