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Alicq
Install
Alicq requires Tcl/Tk 8.3 or
higher and
BWidget 1.3 or higher.
If you need HTTP proxy with authorization support, you have to install
tcllib package (HTTP proxy without
authorization can work without tcllib).
If you need sound support, you need to have Snack
library installed.
If Tcl/Tk is not installed on your system, and pre-built package is not
available for your operation system or distributive, you can download
source of binary package of Tcl/Tk from SourceForge or ActiveState.
ActiveState
"batteries included" Tcl distribution contains
BWidget, tcllib and Snack libraries.
Most popular Unix systems has pre-built versions of Tcl/Tk in their
distributions.
Currently Alicq runs only in X envirionment (though this is not always
necessary).
If you are using Linux, you can try to find Alicq packaged for your
distribution (Debian and
ALT Linux in particular).
To try experimental OpenPGP encryption support, install GnuPG.
To install Alicq from tar.gz or tar.bz2 files, you should
simply unpack archive file, cd to alicq directory and run ./alicq
You can move alicq files according to Unix hierarchy as well:
alicq -> ${prefix}/bin/alicq
icq,lib -> ${tclpath}
data -> ${prefix}/share/alicq
doc -> ${prefix}/share/doc/alicq or whenever you want
where ${prefix} is usually /usr or /usr/local, but can be any,
${tclpath} is any path where Tcl looks for packages (usually
it is /usr/lib, but can also be
/usr/share/tcl).
On startup alicq will look for startup files ~/.alicq/alicqrc
or ~/.alicqrc (not recommended, kept for compatibility),
unless startup file given explicitly via -config
command-line option.
Alicq whould work on any Windows of 9x or NT/2000/XP families.
To install Alicq, just extract files from tar.gz, tar.bz2 or zip archive
with WinZip to preferred folder, and open alicq from it using
wish.
On startup alicq will look for startup file alicq.cfg in
%USERPROFILE%\alicq folder and alicq working directory.
If systems which does not support locales, or have wrong locale setting,
do not use encodings module, but provide desired encoding explicitly
in startup file, e.g:
icq encoding cp1251
Installation is same as for Unix.
MacOS-X bundles is not awailable for now, thus Alicq can be stared from
terminal or from Wish sell.
No one tried yet.
Problems with network reported when running with OS/2 port of
Tcl/Tk.
