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1 libjabber README
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2 Jabber Documentation Team
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3 March 27, 2000
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4 ____________________________________________________________
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6 Table of Contents
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9 1. Introduction
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11 1.1 General
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12 1.2 What This Package Is
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14 2. Getting Things Installed
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16 2.1 Dependencies
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17 2.2 Compilation and Installation
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20 3. Jabber Information
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22 3.1 General Information
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23 3.2 Developer Information
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24 ______________________________________________________________________
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26 1. Introduction
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28 1.1. General
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30 This document gives pointers for information on this package as well
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31 as links to learn more about the Jabber project and about
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32 participating in the project.
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34 Copyright information can be found in each package directory in the
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35 files "COPYRIGHT" and "COPYING."
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37 1.2. What This Package Is
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39 Currently, libjabber provides Jabber server software with various
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47 Apart from your standard UNIX fare, this package is dependent on the
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50 o libxode, available from http://download.jabber.org/
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54 To install as super user do the following in the libjabber root directory:
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57 ./configure
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66 Submit bug reports at http://bugs.jabber.org.
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68 For additional real-time support, many members of the development team
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69 frequent jabber groupchat in jdev@conference.jabber.org and irc at
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77 For general information about Jabber, including a quick introduction
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78 to Jabber concepts, see the FAQ at http://docs.jabber.org/.
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82 There are many areas of Jabber that developers can contribute to.
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83 Jabber encompasses many fields of expertise and anyone that is willing
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86 You may want to delve into the internals of the Jabber project at
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87 http://docs.jabber.org/ and http://protocol.jabber.org/.
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89 Or maybe you would like to go ahead become a developer on the project.
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90 Just go on over to http://jabber.org/ and register. You may also
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91 sign up for the main Jabber mailing list (JDEV).