Vypress Chat in LINUX [fc10]

Vypress Chat is a user-friendly application for real-time chatting in small office or home office (SOHO) local networks. TriX chat is based on the VyQChat [unix clone of Vypress Chat]. You can install Trix in LINUX by following these steps.

  • Download Trix from here.
  • Download Qt from here.
  • Extract Qt & move the folder “qt-x11-free-3.3.8″ into /usr/local/ & rename it as “qt”.
  • Open /root/.profile as root & type the following & save
    • #!/bin/bash
    • QTDIR=/usr/local/qt
    • PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
    • MANPATH=$QTDIR/doc/man:$MANPATH
    • LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  • Open terminal & type the following to build Qt
    • cd /usr/local/qt
    • ./configure && make
  • Extract trix-0.94.tat.bz2 & change the directory into the folder trix-0.94.
  • Install Trix
    • ./configure –disable-mt –with-qt-dir=/usr/local/qt && make
  • Goto “/etc/rc.d/rc5.d” & delete K##iptables, K##ip6tables, S##iptables, S##ip6tables. “##” denotes any combination of two digits.
  • If u want to run Trix at boot time then make a link & rename it “S##trix” into “/etc/rc.d/rc5.d”
  • Reboot the pc.

That’s all, ENJOY!