HOWTO: Installing latest licq version (1.3.2)

[ahessling]

Hi!

For all the users that like licq's (http://www.licq.org) features (for example reading away messages especially from Miranda users correctly), I provided some .deb files that I backported from Dapper.
You can download them at http://www.andrehessling.de/linux/licq-1.3.2/

You will at least need licq_1.3.2-5_i386.deb and licq-plugin-qt_1.3.2-5_i386.deb since they depend on each other.

Install licq by issuing the following line as root, but you should as always backup your existing licq directory (~/.licq) and remove an older licq version before (sudo apt-get remove licq):
sudo dpkg -i licq_1.3.2-5_i386.deb licq-plugin-qt_1.3.2-5_i386.deb

If you want to use the nice kde plugin, you have of course to install it and then activate it in licq's plugin manager. After that restart licq with the line
licq -p kde-gui
and you should receive a nicer looking interface.

I hope that helps!

Regards,
André

[Pizza the Hutt]

How do I install the kde-plugin and where do I find the plugin manager?

[maulattu]

it works! nice howto, thansk ;)

[ahessling]

Pizza the Hutt:
You have to download this file:
http://www.andrehessling.de/linux/licq-1.3.2/licq-plugin-kde_1.3.2-5_i386.deb

And issue the following command as root:
dpkg -i licq-plugin-kde_1.3.2-5_i386.deb

Then you can find an entry in licq's main menu where you can enable some plugins. There you have to enable this kde plugin and restart licq on a console using this line:
licq -p kde-gui

This will ensure that the kde plugin is loaded before the qt plugin and then you should be able to just start licq without the extra parameter -p kde-gui since licq saves the default frontend.