[olug] Instant Messages/Chat

[CM Miller]

I've tried installing Gabber from RPM and Tar files,
no luck on either.  Although I prefer Tar files. 

For GAIM, did anyone have any problmes installing for
either rpm or tar? 

I'm not a KDE person, but those desktop postings
yesterday sure looked nice. 


-Chris 


--- David Walker <linux_user at grax.com> wrote:
> I've been happy with Gaim and XChat.
> Gaim does irc, icq, msn, aim, yahoo, and jabber.
> XChat just does irc.
> 
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 02:32 pm, CM Miller wrote:
> > What type of chat clients do most of the folks on
> the
> > list use?
> >
> > I've tried to ./configure Gabber to no luck.  And
> I
> > have been using .tgz files, but it seems that
> during
> > the ./configure part, there is always a dependency
> > issue and so on and so forth.  I go out and get
> that
> > file, and then there is another dependency issue.
> >
> > The funny thing is that I went out and installed
> the
> > Linux AIM rpm and it installed without missing a
> beat,
> > but I don't believe that it would work with IRC,
> > Yahoo, and another other IMs besides  AIM.
> >
> > So what type of IMs are OLUG folks using on their
> > Linux machines and is anyone here using Gabber
> > w/Gnome?  If so could they give me some advise so
> I
> > could get that up and runnin'
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> >
> >
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