For kde I use klicq. Works great and easy to setup.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] ICQ
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, PadLocke wrote:
>
> > Can anyone recommend a decent ICQ client?
> > The one I just installed locked everything up for me. The good news is
that it
> > did a real good job of it :)
>
> If you use Gnome you might like Gnomeicu which is included with
> Mandrake... if you don't use Gnome and you're like me then you'll find it
> offensively annoying that gnomeicu loads up the damned Gnome panel just to
> dock itself in.
>
> That aside, the best ICQ client I've found is licq, which isn't included
> in Mandrake. Assuming you want to install it the quick and easy RPM way,
> here are URL's for three files to download:
>
> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/qt-2.0.2-2.i386.rpm
> ftp://licq.darkorb.net/binaries/rpm/licq-0.71-1.i386.rpm
> ftp://licq.darkorb.net/binaries/rpm/licq-data-1.3-1.noarch.rpm
>
> The first is QT 2.0.2 which is required by licq and fortunately won't
> interfere with the older version of QT being used by KDE. The other two
> are two parts of licq both needed for it to work. Install those packages,
> type licq to fire it up, and enjoy. :)
>
> -Tom
>