Recommend a good Linux ICQ client (not LICQ)

[RSI]

What ICQ client would you Linux users recommend? I seem to be OK with GAIM and this other AIM one (GAIM's ICQ isn't working properly for me), but LICQ does not work for some reason, and I'm out of ideas. What can I try?

-RSI

PS: Please include installation instructions

 

[RSI]

Dammit you worthless peasants!

-RSI

 

[slag]

GNOMEICU

works great.

 

[RSI]

GNOMEICU? or GNOMEICQ?

And where can I find it, how hard is it to set up, what is the interface like?

-RSI

 

[n0cmonkey]

gnomeicu, check freshmeat. Do a search for icq. I like micq.

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

http://web.icq.com/icqlite/

 

[Igor]

Go grab the latest LICQ snapshot from CVS and compile it. The problem with the one you can get as a binary (1.0.3) is that it only supports ICQ protocol v.6 while windoze version is up to version 8 (2001b) now. For some interesting reason AOL/ICQ decided not to deliver messages through the server from older clients.. Not sure if that's the problem you had, but with most people now using firewalls, messages through the server are becoming the only way to communicate.
When you use Gaim, you are still using the same ICQ library that LICQ uses, so I'd start with a fresh compile of an LICQ CVS snapshot..

 

[RSI]

<< Go grab the latest LICQ snapshot from CVS and compile it. The problem with the one you can get as a binary (1.0.3) is that it only supports ICQ protocol v.6 while windoze version is up to version 8 (2001b) now. For some interesting reason AOL/ICQ decided not to deliver messages through the server from older clients.. Not sure if that's the problem you had, but with most people now using firewalls, messages through the server are becoming the only way to communicate.
When you use Gaim, you are still using the same ICQ library that LICQ uses, so I'd start with a fresh compile of an LICQ CVS snapshot.. >>

There's the problem! I know crapsolutely nothing about Linux and installing programs in Linux, much less COMPILING them myself! :Q

-RSI

 

[Igor]

It's really much easier than it sounds. Usually you just untar stuff in a directory, go there and type ./configure
It would go and configure compilation. Sometimes it may tell you what headers need to be installed. Then you do make. After it compiles, you su, and do make install. That's usually it.

 

[UnixFreak]

Yeah, its actually pretty easy. Personally, I dont like the way Licq Handles windows, I use GnomeICU under KDE (sometimes a little shaky), but if you are running under gnome, GnomeICU works pretty well.