A couple of weeks ago, Nikki blogged about installing IP Messenger for Unix/Gnome2. Just like he said, IP Messenger is a staple application in our office. It’s very handy when we need to pass around large files like installers, music files, zipped archives of work stuff, or movies.
The description of this application from the site says
“This is a pop up style LAN Messenger for multi platforms. It is based on TCP/IP(UDP). It does not require server machine. Simple, lightweight, and compact size.”
I think I promised to post the Fedora-specific instructions and dependencies, so here it is…
First, download the archive for Unix/Gnome2 from the site. Then extract the archive. From the terminal, go to the directory where you downloaded archive, and type:
tar -xzvf g2ipmsg-0.9.5.tar.gz |
It is important to install the dependencies before we proceed. On your terminal, as a root user, type:
yum install perl-XML-Parser libgnomeui-devel libpanelappletmm-devel gettext intltool |
then type the following series of (familiar) commands to build and install ipmsg.
cd g2ipmsg-0.9.5 |
./configure |
make |
make install |
then run it
g2ipmsg |
You should then see the IP Messenger icon on your panel.
IP Messenger Icon (leftmost icon)
Click it to launch the IP Messenger window.
g2ipmsg screenshot
This instruction worked on my machine. Did it work on yours?
Hi,
I followed your instructions and installed IP Messenger. Now that the installation is done. I find that there are no users listed in box. Similar to the screenshot you’ve posted. So how do I get the users in the list ?
Hi asif! You have to be in the same network as the others with IPMSG. Ask your systems administrator about it
Hi Randell! The machine that i use is a dual boot. IPMsg works out of the box on Windows. But in FC7 i don’t get the user list. And i don’t think i can expect any help from IT services. Any changes to be made for firewall settings ?
hei,
i am in same situation as asif !!
can anyone make any suggestions…??
my UDP port is open!!
It is working when I set the Broadcast addresses, in settings!
# service iptables save
# service iptables stop
# chkconfig iptables off
worked like a charm!
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-howto-disable-remove-firewall/
rahul as u said to do the above steps, i did, but,following error occured
[root@localhost g2ipmsg-0.9.6]# service iptables save
bash: service: command not found
[root@localhost g2ipmsg-0.9.6]# service iptables stop
bash: service: command not found
[root@localhost g2ipmsg-0.9.6]# chkonfig iptables off
bash: chkonfig: command not found
Hey dude,
Cool article. Worked well for me.
@rahul: thanks for ur tip.
@rahul kumar: try
/sbin/service iptables save
and /sbin/service iptables stop
Update: same instructions work for g2ipmsg-0.9.6 on Fedora 10.
hello randell,
plz help.iv installed fedora 10 on my pc.
iv installed the pachkage u described
yum install perl-XML-Parser libgnomeui-devel libpanelappletmm-devel gettext intltoo
then i follwed the procedure
i unzipped the drive and cd to it
but the on typing ./configre i face the following problem…..
[root@kushal g2ipmsg-0.9.6]# ./configure
checking for doxygen… no
configure: WARNING: doxygen not found – will not generate any doxygen documentation
checking for perl… /usr/bin/perl
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles… no
checking for style of include used by make… GNU
checking for gcc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cl.exe… no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log’ for more details.
plz help me…
@kushal, do you have gcc installed?
Hi if interested you can try the open source ip-messenger project in java from the following url http://code.google.com/p/ip-messenger/
Hi Randell
I wish to install ip messenger for fedora 15.
I downloaded all the packages for the same
But
[root@suraj g2ipmsg-0.9.5]# yum install libpanel-applet2-devLoaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package libpanel-applet2-dev available.
Error: Nothing to do
[root@suraj g2ipmsg-0.9.5]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
what should I do dude?
Please do guide me
@Suraj, where did you read about installing libpanel-applet2-dev?
i am getting this error
[root@localhost g2ipmsg-0.9.6]# ./configure
checking for doxygen… no
configure: WARNING: doxygen not found – will not generate any doxygen documentation
checking for perl… /usr/bin/perl
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles… no
checking for style of include used by make… GNU
checking for gcc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cl.exe… no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log’ for more details.