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L I C E N S E   :=

  Copyright(C) 2005,2006,2007 Stefan Siegl <stesie@brokenpipe.de>
  kopete_silc - silc plugin for kopete messenger
 
  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.
 
  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.
 
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA



F O R E W O R D   :=

  Kopete SILC is a protocol plugin for Kopete, the KDE Instant Messenger. If
  you ever cursed that you cannot join the SILC Network using Kopete this can
  help you. It will add SILC support to Kopete.

  The plugin is based on libsilc which is part of the SILC Toolkit mentioned
  above. The library was initially written by Pekka Riikonen and is still
  maintained by him. 



I N S T A L L A T I O N   :=

  kopete_silc doesn't rely on the quite common GNU Autoconf build
  environment but CMake, like quite a lot of other KDE programs do.

  Furthermore you need to have libsilc 1.1 installed.

  Since you read this, you probably succeeded in checking out your
  very own copy from Git, thus you've got all what you need to have to
  successfully start out:

  First enter

        cmake .

  Where libsilc is located will be checked using pkg-config
  approach. KDE-checks are just common. Now you're set to run

	make
	make install

  If it does not work, please fix and tell what was wrong.  Don't just
  cry and shout for help.

  Since installation usually goes below /usr/local/ you probably want
  to add this directory to your KDEDIRS, if it is not already. Do so
  by entering

        export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIRS:/usr/local/kde/

  before launching kopete. This has to be executed before every run of
  kopete, not only at compilation time. Therefore you probably want to
  add this to your local profile.



I F   I T   D O E S   N O T   W O R K   :=

  please contact me at <stesie@brokenpipe.de>, but be patient.




L A S T   B U T   N O T   L E A S T   :=

  your contributions are welcome, 
  please help in improving kopete_silc.

  If you need write access to brokenpipe.de Git repository, please ask.



cheers,
  Stefan Siegl <stesie@brokenpipe.de>


