GNOME2 IP Messenger

A few things about GNOME2 IP Messenger (g2ipmsg), though.

Make sure you have all dependencies installed:

• libxml-parser-perl


• libgnomeui-dev


• libpanel-applet2-dev

(UPDATE 2008-07-06 2:35AM -- additional dependencies)

• gettext


• intltool

How to install these depends on the Linux distribution. The easiest way is to use the graphical Package Manager.

(MAJOR UPDATE 2008-07-07 5:27PM)
Randell reported that he couldn't find the dependencies in Fedora -- I was surprised! I did a search and found out that libxml-parser-perl was perl-XML-parser in Fedora! I suppose that the rest of the dependencies are only for Debian-based distros. Randell said that he'd look up the rest, and post a Fedora instructional soon. With that, I'm slapping the apt-get command back into the list below.

After assuring that you have the above dependencies, you can do a conventional build and install from source. Assuming that the current working directory is where g2ipmsg-0.9.5.tar.gz is located:

 $ tar zxf g2ipmsg-0.9.5.tar.gz
 $ cd g2ipmsg-0.9.5/
 $ sudo apt-get install libxml-parser-perl libgnomeui-dev libpanel-applet2-dev gettext intltool
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ sudo make install
 $ sudo g2ipmsg

Make sure to execute sudo g2ipmsg right after installation. You'll only be able to run it without the sudo after a reboot -- I don't know why, though.

I suddenly posted something like this because while researching specifically about this, the search results with definite instructions were non-English sites.