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Package: ekg2 (1:0.4~pre+20120506.1-14build1)

instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems

EKG2 is an open source instant messenger program for UNIX systems. The program has a plugin-based structure, and supports multiple protocols, currently Jabber, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, RivChat, PolChat, NNTP and RSS.

The program has many useful features. Here is a list - unless specified they are included in the ekg2-core package. 

  - irssi-like ncurses interface, with mouse support [ekg2-ui-ncurses]
  - experimental GTK+ interface [ekg2-ui-gtk]
  - spell checking [ekg2-ui-ncurses]
  - jogger.pl blog update support
  - a simple CAPTCHA (autoresponder)
  - Python and Perl scripting [ekg2-scripting-python, ekg2-scripting-perl]
  - launching shell commands on certain events
  - encryption support (SIM, GnuPG) [ekg2-core, ekg2-gnupg]
  - logging to SQLite, plain text or XML files
  - sending SMs (using an external program such as sms-pl)
  - mail checking

This is a metapackage which depends on a set of commonly used EKG2 packages.

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  • dep: ekg2-core (= 1:0.4~pre+20120506.1-14build1)
    instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems - main program
  • dep: ekg2-jabber (= 1:0.4~pre+20120506.1-14build1)
    instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems - Jabber/XMPP
  • dep: ekg2-ui-ncurses (= 1:0.4~pre+20120506.1-14build1)
    instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems - ncurses interface
  • sug: ekg2-gnupg
    instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems - GnuPG
  • sug: ekg2-scripting-perl
    instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems - Perl scripting
  • sug: ekg2-scripting-python
    instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems - Python scripting
  • sug: ekg2-ui-gtk
    instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems - GTK+ interface

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