Gajim Read Me

Welcome to Gajim and thank you for trying out our client.

Runtime Requirements

• python2.5 or higher
• pygtk2.16 or higher
• pysqlite2 (if you have python 2.5, you already have this)

Note to packagers Gajim is a GTK+ app that loves GNOME. You can do 'make' so you don't require gnomepythonextras (aka gnome-python-desktop) which is gnome dep, but you will miss gnomekeyring integration.

Optional Runtime Requirements

• PyOpenSSL (python-pyopenssl package in Debian) (>=0.9) for secure SSL/TLS. Python's default SSL is insecure, so this package is highly recommended!
• python-crypto to enable End to end encryption
• For idle module, libxss library
• For zeroconf (bonjour), the "enable link-local messaging" checkbox, you need dbus-glib, python-avahi
• dnsutils (or whatever package provides the nslookup binary) for SRV support
• gtkspell and aspell-LANG where lang is your locale eg. en, fr etc
• gnome-python-desktop (for GnomeKeyring support)
• notification-daemon or notify-python (and D-Bus) to get cooler popups
• D-Bus running to have gajim-remote working. Some distributions split dbus-x11, which is needed for dbus to work with Gajim. Version >= 0.80 is required.
• python-dbus bindings (>=0.81)
• python-kerberos to use GSSAPI authentification. Note: version1.1 or higher is required

Some distributions also split too much python standard library. I know SUSE does. In such distros you also need python-xml the xml lib that *comes* with python and not pyxml or whatever.

Compile-time Requirements

• python-dev
• python-gtk2-dev
• intltool (>= 0.40.1)

NOTE: If you still have problems compiling, you may want to try removing the gtk1 series of the above dependencies.

Installation Procedure

1. tar jxvf gajim-version.tar.bz2
2. cd gajim
3. ./configure
4. make (builds all modules)
5. su -c make install

To specify what modules to build do:

    make help

To specify where to install do:

    ./configure --prefix=custom_path

Running Gajim

Just do gajim or you can run Gajim from your GNOME/Xfce/KDE/whatever menus.

or if you use hg version and you didn't 'make install' you can also run from gajim folder with./launch.sh

Note for hg users

You will need GNU autotools in order to install Gajim from svn. This includes:

• automake >= 1.8
• autoconf >= 2.59
• libtool
• intltool-0.40.1
• pkgconfig >= 0.19

steps to compile gajim:

    $ sh autogen.sh
    $ ./configure
    $ make

Alternatively, if you don't want to install all these packages, you can get a nightly snapshot from here and procede as usual:

    $ ./configure
    $ make

Uninstallation Procedure

    su -c make uninstall

this will try to remove Gajim from the default directories. If you want to remove it from custom directory provide it as:

    ./configure --prefix=custom_path
    make uninstall

Miscellaneous

XML & Debugging

If you want to see the xml stanzas and/or help us debugging you're advised to enable verbose via advanced configuration window. If you don't want to make this permanent, execute gajim with --verbose everytime you want to have verbose output.

FAQ/Wiki

FAQ can be found at http://trac.gajim.org/wiki/GajimFaq
Wiki can be found at http://trac.gajim.org/wiki

That is all, enjoy!

(C) 2003-2010
The Gajim Team
http://gajim.org


PS. We use original art and parts of sounds and other art from Psi, Gossip, Gnomebaker, Gaim and some icons from various gnome-icons (mostly Dropline Etiquette) we found at art.gnome.org If you think we're violating a license please inform us. Thank you.