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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain Messenger

Messenger can be found at my homepage. You can download it from there.

2.2 Requirements

Messenger requires working KDE libs installed, version 1.1 or above. Messenger also requires installed qt libs, version 1.42 or above. You can get KDE from http://www.kde.org and QT from http://www.troll.no.

If you want to process voice messages e.g., listen to them you need tcat. This tool takes a gsm file, uncompresses it and sends it to the standard output. Messenger uses tcat and redirects itīs output to /dev/audio. In future versions this will be configurable.

The whole gsm package can be downloaded from here or you might find a newer version at http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html.

Unpack the gsm package and read the install file. I had no problems to compile and install it on my linux box.

2.3 Compilation and installation

In order to compile and install Messenger on your system, type the following in the base directory of the Messenger distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

Since Messenger uses

autoconf
you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at Torsten Uhlmann

Please unpack the gsm package and read the INSTALL file therein. Itīs fairly easy to install it though. Just check the Makefile (you probably need to add an install directory (/usr/local for instance)), type make addtst, make, make install and you should be done.

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