Introduction
LICQ acts as an interface to ICQ in Linux. It uses the qt libraries, so you have to configure, make, and make install them also before it will run. It supports skins that includes the Windows ICQ look and feel, away messages, username lookup function, and many other features.
GAIM Installation
RPM Version
The RPM version of the latest LICQ(0.81.1) requires the qt 2.1 libraries. These must be installed first before installing LICQ.
rpm -ivh licq-0.81-1.i386.rpm
TAR Version
The TAR version includes the qt libraries needed as a plugin. Thus, you can compile LICQ, then compile the necessary qt libraries as shown below.
tar -xvzf licq-0.81.tar.gz
cd licq-0.81
./configure
make
make install
cd plugins
./configure
make
make install
Post-installation
After installation, run the executable /usr/local/bin/licq.
