Metronome IM is an XMPP client that supports all major operating systems, including Linux. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Metronome IM on EndeavourOS.
Before installing any new software, it is important to update the system to ensure that all packages are up-to-date. Open a terminal and run the following command to update the system:
sudo pacman -Syu
Enter your user password when prompted and wait for the system update to complete.
The next step is to install the dependencies required to run Metronome IM. Open a terminal and run the following commands one-by-one to install the necessary dependencies:
sudo pacman -S git make wget unzip glib2-devel
sudo pacman -S lua lua-sec lua-expat lua-zlib lua-filesystem sqlite qrencode
Open a browser and navigate to https://metronome.im/. Click on the "Download" button and select the Linux version.
In the terminal, navigate to the directory where you want to download and install Metronome IM. Then, run the following command to download Metronome IM:
wget https://github.com/metronome-im/metronome/archive/master.zip
After the download is complete, use the following command to unzip the file:
unzip master.zip
In the terminal, navigate to the Metronome IM directory and run the following commands to build and install Metronome IM:
cd metronome-master/
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
make
sudo make install
Metronome IM is now installed on your EndeavourOS system. You can start Metronome IM by running the following command in the terminal:
metronome
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Metronome IM on EndeavourOS. Metronome IM is a powerful XMPP client that is easy to install and use. Now that you have installed Metronome IM, you can start using it to communicate with your friends and colleagues.
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