StoneAge Messenger is an instant messaging application that supports end-to-end encryption, voice and video calls, and file sharing. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install StoneAge Messenger on Void Linux.
Before installing StoneAge Messenger, you need to make sure that your system has the following prerequisites installed:
We need to install the development tools and libraries necessary to build StoneAge. To do this, we can use the xbps-install package manager.
sudo xbps-install -Sy base-devel libtool make automake git gettext openssl-devel opusfile-devel gtk3-devel json-glib-devel webkit2gtk-devel
The first step is to get the source code of StoneAge. We can get it from the StoneAge GitHub repository using Git.
git clone https://gitlab.com/cweb/StoneAge.git
cd StoneAge
Once we have the StoneAge source code, we can start the building process.
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
The installation process may take several minutes, depending on the speed of your computer.
Once the building and installation process of StoneAge Messenger is complete, we can launch it using the below command:
stoneage
In this tutorial, we learned how to install StoneAge Messenger on Void Linux by cloning the repository, installing the dependencies, and building and installing the StoneAge application. With StoneAge Messenger, you can communicate securely and conveniently.
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