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Installing xchat
One of the more interesting applications for such an old computer is to be able to talk on IRC. XChat is a graphic application (runs on X) for IRC talking and can be found on Nekoware already compiled and almost-ready-to-use.
Almost? Yes. You have to resolve lots and lots of dependencies. In my case, I had to download 27 files incluiding the XChat tardist. Since some of you may have a slow internet connection (like me) and may download the files in another (speedier) place, here you have a list of files/dependencies that XChat have, and the dependencies of dependencies generated for the install of the libs.
08/12/2010 17:09 972.800 neko_atk-1.10.1.tardist 08/12/2010 17:25 3.921.920 neko_cairo-1.2.2.tardist 08/12/2010 17:25 788.480 neko_expat-2005-01-28.tardist 08/12/2010 17:21 3.676.160 neko_fontconfig-2.3.2.tardist 08/12/2010 17:27 3.041.280 neko_freetype2-2.1.10.tardist 08/12/2010 19:05 19.927.040 neko_gettext-0.17.tardist 08/12/2010 18:26 6.461.440 neko_glib-2.12.13.tardist 08/12/2010 17:33 839.680 neko_glitz-0.5.6.tardist 09/12/2010 00:05 31.918.080 neko_gtk+-2.10.14.tardist 08/12/2010 19:44 942.080 neko_libcroco-0.6.1.tardist 08/12/2010 18:18 4.792.320 neko_libiconv-1.11.tardist 09/12/2010 00:10 1.044.480 neko_libjpeg-6b.tardist 08/12/2010 18:31 419.840 neko_libpixman-0.1.6.tardist 08/12/2010 18:34 1.372.160 neko_libpng-1.2.29.tardist 08/12/2010 19:47 481.280 neko_libXft-2.1.10.tardist 08/12/2010 20:26 10.311.680 neko_libxml2-2.6.27.tardist 08/12/2010 18:33 317.440 neko_libxrender-0.8.4.tardist 08/12/2010 20:40 6.369.280 neko_ncurses-5.7.tardist 09/12/2010 00:17 1.177.600 neko_openjpeg-1.3.tardist 08/12/2010 19:27 10.383.360 neko_openssl-0.9.8k.tardist 08/12/2010 19:39 2.549.760 neko_pango-1.12.4.tardist 08/12/2010 20:32 2.048.000 neko_readline-4.3.tardist 08/12/2010 19:51 102.400 neko_render-0.8.tardist 09/12/2010 00:21 4.741.120 neko_tiff-3.8.2.tardist 08/12/2010 16:59 5.816.320 neko_windowmaker-0.92.0-r1.tardist 08/12/2010 16:29 2.662.400 neko_xchat-2.6.8.tardist 08/12/2010 19:18 675.840 neko_zlib-1.2.3-r1.tardist
Download all these files, and we can begin install.
- Open Software Manager
- point it to neko_xchat-2.6.8.tardist
- Click Start
- You'll see that it needs some libs, point to the dir with the libs, and let it install
- Ready, it will not work :)
Before you run, remember to configure the desktop to 24bit color. Or else you'll have a nice CAIRO error.