Centericq

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Contents 1 Background 2 Installation 2.1 Freelink 2.2 OpenLink 3 References

Background

Centericq^[1][2] is a text mode menu- and window-driven instant messaging interface that supports the ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, Jabber, and Gadu-Gadu protocols. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis), contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful features. Centericq was written by Konstantin Klyagin and is licensed under the terms of the GPL.

Installation

Freelink

Use apt-get to install centericq

apt-get install centericq

OpenLink

Dependencies:

• curl and libcurl (required)
• ncurses (required)
• curl and libcurl (recommended)
• GNU Transport Layer Security Library (recommended)
• libjpeg (recommended)
• FriBidi (optional)
• GPGME (optional)
• OpenSSL (optional)

You can compile it from source^[3]

Get the latest CenterICQ source and unpack it, make it, and install it with the following commands.

 wget http://centericq.de/archive/source/releases/centericq-4.21.0.tar.gz
 tar -xvzf centericq-4.21.0.tar.gz 
 cd centericq-4.21.0
 ./configure
 make
 make install

References

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Centericq
2. ↑ The Official Centericq website
3. ↑ CenterICQ: Help with installing CenterICQ

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