3.8 KiB
Welcome to Gajim and thank you for trying out our client.
Runtime Requirements
- python2.5 or higher
- pygtk2.22 or higher
- python-nbxmpp
Optional Runtime Requirements
- PyOpenSSL (python-pyopenssl package in Debian) (>=0.12) for secure SSL/TLS. Python's default SSL is insecure, so this package is highly recommended!
- python-pyasn1 to check SSL/TLS certificate
- python-crypto to enable End to end encryption
- python-gnupg to enable GPG encryption
- For idle module, libxss library
- For zeroconf (bonjour), the "enable link-local messaging" checkbox, you need dbus-glib, python-avahi
- dnsutils (or whatever package provides the nslookup binary) for SRV support
- gtkspell and aspell-LANG where lang is your locale eg. en, fr etc
- gnome-python-desktop (for GnomeKeyring support as password storage)
- kwalletcli (for support of KDE Wallet as password storage)
- notification-daemon or notify-python (and D-Bus) to get cooler popups
- D-Bus running to have gajim-remote working. Some distributions split dbus-x11, which is needed for dbus to work with Gajim. Version >= 0.80 is required.
- python-dbus bindings (>=0.81)
- python-kerberos to use GSSAPI authentification. Note: version1.1 or higher is required
Some distributions also split too much python standard library. I know SUSE does. In such distros you also need python-xml the xml lib that *comes* with python and not pyxml or whatever.
Compile-time Requirements
- intltool (>= 0.40.1)
NOTE: If you still have problems compiling, you may want to try removing the gtk1 series of the above dependencies.
Installation Procedure
- tar jxvf gajim-version.tar.bz2
- cd gajim
- ./configure
- make (builds translations)
- su -c make install
To specify where to install do:
./configure --prefix=custom\_path
Running Gajim
Just do gajim or you can run Gajim from your GNOME/Xfce/KDE/whatever menus.
or if you use hg version and you didn't 'make install' you can also run from gajim folder with_./launch.sh_
Note for hg users
You will need GNU autotools in order to install Gajim from svn. This includes:
- automake >= 1.8
- autoconf >= 2.59
- libtool
- intltool-0.40.1
- pkgconfig >= 0.19
steps to compile gajim:
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
Alternatively, if you don't want to install all these packages, you can get a nightly snapshot from here and procede as usual:
$ ./configure
$ make
Uninstallation Procedure
su -c make uninstall
this will try to remove Gajim from the default directories. If you want to remove it from custom directory provide it as:
./configure --prefix=custom\_path
make uninstall
Miscellaneous
XML & Debugging
If you want to see the xml stanzas and/or help us debugging you're advised to enable verbose via advanced configuration window. If you don't want to make this permanent, execute gajim with --verbose everytime you want to have verbose output.
FAQ/Wiki
FAQ can be found at http://trac.gajim.org/wiki/GajimFaq
Wiki can be found at http://trac.gajim.org/wiki
That is all, enjoy!
(C) 2003-2012
The Gajim Team
http://gajim.org
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oneflux and digdeeper MUC contributors
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PS. We use original art and parts of sounds and other art from Psi, Gossip, Gnomebaker, Gaim and some icons from various gnome-icons (mostly Dropline Etiquette) we found at art.gnome.org If you think we're violating a license please inform us. Thank you.