A much better and complete icq client is kxicq www.kxicq.org
The install does not require all of the icq libs and it installs very easy.
It is also much more complete like having file transfer and better url sending.
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> First off, thanks to all who contribute both your time and patience.
> Without you, choice would become a meaningless concept. I have installed
> "kicq" on Linux 6.1 (Mandrake). I have completed the "confiqure,"
> "complile," and "install." I have copied all files to the appropriate
> directories. I was given this message, copied at the bottom of this
> mail, and I am a bit uncertain about what it is telling me to do. I can
> see I need some kind of '"environment variable," and something entered
> into my "path." Am I to to a "ln," and do I run the link with a switch,
> "LLIBDIR?" I have been looking at man pages, and I have been back on the
> kicq page but uncertainty lingers. Any help rendered would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Craig Woods
>
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>
> Libraries have been installed in:
> /usr/local/lib
>
> To link against installed libraries in a given directory, LIBDIR,
> you must use the `-LLIBDIR' flag during linking.
>
> You will also need to do at least one of the following:
> - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable during
> execution
> - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
> during linking
> - use the `-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
> - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf'
>
> See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for more
> information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
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