Obtaining the Code

For this, you have 2 choices. If you opt for the subversion code, you'll get the latest developments in Galaxium, but less reliability and should expect breakage. Most people will want to download a released tarball.

• Download and extract a source tarball.
• Checkout the latest source code from subversion

Obtain Dependencies

• Mono 1.2.4 or later
• Mono.Addins 0.3 or later
• Gtk# (2.10.2 or later) usually included with Mono
• SharpZipLib
• libanculus-sharp
• GStreamer for audio support
• webkit-sharp for Adium message styles & MSN activities support
• Swfdec 0.6 for MSN winks support

Build Galaxium

Run the following commands:

• sh autogen.sh (see configure options below) to check dependencies & generate Makefiles
• make to build Galaxium
• make install (as root) to install Galaxium

Configure Options

When running autogen.sh, the following parameters can be passed to configure galaxium:

• --enable-gecko to enable gecko support
• --disable-webkit to disable webkit support
• --enable-ProtocolName to enable support for a protocol (remember: they're disabled for a reason)
• --help to display information about all available options