Re: working icq client for debian?

[Andreas Leitner <nozone@sbox.tugraz.at>]

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 07:45, Dmitriy wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:42:50AM +0100, Andreas Leitner wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > 
> > I have heard rumors that gaim supports the new icq protocl, but when i
> > start it up, i get to the logon screen and am promted for a AOL IM user
> > name + password (which i do not have). Does anybody know how to setup
> > gaim to work as an ICQ messenger?
> > 
> When u see signup window, click on plugins.
> 
> There you can load an icq plugin, and loads of other stuff.
> And then u can click on accounts button on  signup window, 
> and edit your accounts, and select the ones on which gaim would 
> logon automatically.
> 
> I hope that helps.

Yes - thanks alot, I got it working now. Although I also played with
ickle. There is no .deb for it yet and it is lacking a gnome applet, but
it looks very prommising and works without tweaking the firewall (;