OICQ/QQ Chinese Instant Messaging in Linux

[dazjw]

There's an atrocious piece of software for Windows known alternately as Tencent QQ or OICQ. It's Chinese in origin, and although I really rather despise the client, which has one of the most irritating browser hijackers on install I've ever encountered, the network itself is packed with chatty Chinese people. I study Mandarin Chinese, and I've found the use of QQ incredibly helpful. So now I want to be able to use it under Linux.

I've done some googling on the matter, but 99% of the pages I found were in Chinese (I'm only studying, I'm not up to reading complicated installation instructions), and most seemed to be to do with an unofficial hack to gaim involving a libqq plugin, that I could never seem to find to download. I've tried running it under Wine, but no luck their so far.

Has anyone out there found a working method of accessing the QQ network using Linux?

[chrisyu]

You better ask in Chinese forums.
I think few people use it out of China.

There is plugin for gaim 0.64(maybe 0.66), and take a look at

http://www.linuxsir.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=28
http://www.linuxforum.net/forum/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=office
http://www.linuxfans.org/nuke/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=6

Good luck.

[dazjw]

I'm bumping this because I still haven't found a treally decent solution to this, I've been using Net::OICQ, which is a perl module to do OICQ stuff, but it's command line only and find it a pain to work with.

This link http://bbs.gliet.edu.cn/bbs/index.php?showtopic=8896&st=0 has a screenshot in it showing exactly what I want, but translating computer terms is a bit beyond me... anymore help please?

[mog]

did you get it to work in the end? I would be interested in it too
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