On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:56:46PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and > gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems > (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get delivered > again on client startup... this is a problem when you have 20+ > messages that come in everytime you start your ICQ client).
I've had that problem for a while now, but I just grabbed licq 1.0.4 from unstable and it seems to fix that problem nicely. Apparently 1.0.4 will be the last version to use the old protocol; as someone else suggested, you could give the CVS a try if 1.0.4 doesn't fix it. The thing to remember tho, is that this is AOLs fault; they keep updating the protocol in (what seems to be) a non-backward compatible fashion. > > I'm considering installing WINE and trying to get the Windows ICQ client > to work, but that seems both iffy, and difficult, since I don't have a > Windows machine anymore to steal DLL's from (although I do have a Win98 > CD, so I may be able to just extract them as needed). Arggghhh, have you seen the recent version of Mirabilis ICQ? It's not the licq ICQ98 days of yore; ICQ is now a shopping/mobile phone calling/fax/video phoning monstrosity, with some legacy IM capabilities remaining. > > Suggestions would be very welcome at this point. Unfortunately, the > suggestion to drop ICQ for another IM is not feasible, due to the > infamous Circumstances Beyond My Control (tm). Anyhow, as I said, the new version of licq seems to work flawlessly, and the next release promises to fix any of the remaining protocol bugs. -rob
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