Introduction

Efax-gtk is a GUI front end for the 'efax' fax program.   It can be used to send and receive faxes with a fax modem, and to view, print and manage faxes received.   It also has a socket interface to provide a "virtual printer" for sending faxes from word processors and similar programs, and can automatically e-mail a received fax to a designated user, and automatically print a received fax.

More information is provided in the README file: README

Requirements

To compile and run efax-gtk-3.*, the GTK+-2.* and libsigc++ libraries must be installed. GTK+-2.* comes with Gnome-2. The README file referred to above provides further information about required versions of libsigc++, and it can be downloaded here: libsigc++ .  The program is known to compile with gcc-2.95.3, gcc-3.2, gcc-3.3, gcc-3.4, gcc-4.0, gcc-4.1, gcc-4.2 and gcc-4.3, and should compile with any other standards compliant compiler.

To use the program you must also have ghostscript (gs) installed (this is included in practically all Linux/Unix-type distributions).  You do not need to separately download and install 'efax' - the standard efax-gtk packages in the 'Download' section below include the necessary efax source code.

To use the supplied 'mail_fax' script (which will automatically mail a received fax to a specified user), you will also need Heirloom mailx.  This can be obtained here, if it is not included in your distribution: mailx

Download

The source code for the most recent stable version is efax-gtk-3.0.17

The last single theaded version of the program is efax-gtk-2.2.6c :  this is still being maintained by way of bug fixes, so bug reports on it will be accepted.

The final version for GTK+1.2 and gtkmm-1.2 is efax-gtk-1.0.8a

See the ChangeLog for further information about releases.

Help

A mailing list is available at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efax-gtk-general , and a public forum is available at http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=109982

I can be contacted at cvine -at- users -dot- sourceforge -dot- net.

CVS

  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@efax-gtk.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/efax-gtk login

When prompted for a password just press the 'Enter' key.  Then download the files with:

The contents of the CVS repository for efax-gtk can be viewed through the web interface at viewCVS

Precompiled packages

A precompiled package of version 3.0.17 for Debian GNU/Linux unstable (SID) can be obtained here: Debian unstable . A precompiled package of version 3.0.12 for Debian stable can be obtained here: Debian stable .

A precompiled package of version 3.0.7 for Slackware 10.2 by Gergely Szakats can be obtained here: Slackware .

A precompiled package of version 3.0.8 for OpenSuse 10.0 by David Weber can be obtained here:
OpenSuse .

Any issues about the precompiled packages should be sent to the relevant maintainer of the package concerned.