glfs/xsoft/other/gaim.xml

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gaim-download-http "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gaim/gaim-1.5.0.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY gaim-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY gaim-md5sum        "9205321ac11fad271c90f2f0d7c5e7ce">
  <!ENTITY gaim-size          "6.0 MB">
  <!ENTITY gaim-buildsize     "179 MB">
  <!ENTITY gaim-time          "1.2 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="gaim" xreflabel="Gaim-&gaim-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gaim.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy: manuel $</othername>
    <date>$Date: 2005-12-08 20:34:49 +0000 (Thu, 08 Dec 2005) $</date>
    <keywordset>
      <keyword role="package">gaim-&gaim-version;.tar</keyword>
      <keyword role="ftpdir">gaim</keyword>
    </keywordset>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Gaim-&gaim-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gaim">
    <primary sortas="a-Gaim">Gaim</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Gaim</title>

    <para><application>Gaim</application> is an instant messaging client that can
    connect with a wide range of networks including AIM, ICQ, MSN, Jabber,
    IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr and Yahoo!</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gaim-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gaim-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &gaim-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &gaim-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &gaim-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &gaim-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Gaim Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="gtk2"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="libao"/>,
    <ulink url="http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/">libgpg-error</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/">libgcrypt</ulink>,
    <ulink url="ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/libtasn1/">libtasn1</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnutls/">gnutls</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/">Gtkspell</ulink>
    <xref linkend="tcl"/>, <xref linkend="tk"/>, <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
    <xref linkend="audiofile"/>, <xref linkend="dbus"/>, <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
    <xref linkend="nas"/>, <xref linkend="doxygen"/> and
    <ulink url="http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/download.html">Howl</ulink>

</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Gaim</title>

    <para>To connect with MSN you will need to compile <application>Gaim</application>
    with SSL support. For this you will need to have already installed
    <application>libgpg-error</application>, <application>libgcrypt</application>,
    <application>libtasn1</application> and <application>gnutls</application> compiled
    in that order. Use of the <application>Mozilla</application> SSL library is
    deprecated.</para>

    <para>Install <application>Gaim</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><command>--enable-nas</command>: Use this switch if you want to compile
    <application>Gaim</application> with <xref linkend="nas"/> support.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gaim and gaim-remote</seg>
        <seg>libgaim-remote.so</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/gaim, /usr/lib/gaim, /usr/share/pixmaps/gaim, and
        /usr/share/sounds/gaim</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gaim-prog">
        <term><command>gaim</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para> is an instant messaging client</para>
          <indexterm zone="gaim gaim-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-gaim">gaim</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gaim-remote">
        <term><command>gaim-remote</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para> is a command-line interface for controlling an already running
          instance of <command>gaim</command></para>
          <indexterm zone="gaim gaim-remote">
            <primary sortas="b-gaim-remote">gaim-remote</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgaim-remote">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libgaim-remote.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para> contains functions that are used by gaim-remote</para>
          <indexterm zone="gaim libgaim-remote">
            <primary sortas="c-libgaim-remote">libgaim-remote.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>