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# Arch Linux

MCabber is in the community package repositories. Just enable it and install via
pacman:

    pacman -S mcabber

# Debian

Mario Iseli is maintaining an official Debian package, which was successfully
released with Debian Etch on 08 Apr 2007 (0.8.3). Note: After installing the
package, you need to set up a personal configuration file; see the documentation
and the sample `mcabberrc` file in the `/usr/share/doc/mcabber/` directory. See
the [Debian mcabber package page][debianpkg].

Fresh mcabber versions for stable and oldstable distributions also available
[here][wasteland].

# Ubuntu

Debian packages by Mario Iseli are synced to Ubuntu. See the [Ubuntu mcabber
package page][ubuntupkg].

Fresh mcabber versions for stable and oldstable LTS distributions also available
[here][wasteland].

# Red Hat / Fedora

For Red Hat/Fedora Core users, Dries Verachtert is building a set of RPM
packages. You can find them [here][driespkg1] or [here][driespkg2].

Michael Fleming is also maintaining packages for Fedora Core 6 (in Fedora
Extras) as well as Fedora 7 and up (in the core "Everything" repository)

You only need to enable the Fedora Extras repository for Core 6 to get access -
no extra configuration is needed for Fedora 7+. `yum install mcabber` installs
the package and it's dependencies.

# Slackware

Thanks to Eric Hameleers, mcabber is now officially part of Slackware.

# Gentoo

Thanks to Philip M. White, there is now an official [Gentoo Portage][].

If you want to use the development version found on the Mercurial repository,
you can use the [Berkano Overlay][]. You can [browse the overlay][berkanoweb]
too.

# FreeBSD

Vsevolod Stakhov has created a [FreeBSD port][].

# OpenBSD

There is an OpenBSD port, currently maintained by Markus Hennecke:

    pkg_add mcabber

# pkgsrc

MCabber is also available in [pkgsrc][pkgsrcse]. However, it's only available
[pkgsrc-wip][] till now.

# Optware

Cross compiled ipk for small NAS devices to be installed under `/opt`.
See [Optware][optware-wiki].

# Mac OS X

There is a mcabber [Fink][] package in the Fink unstable tree.

There is also a port available in the [MacPorts][] repository.

**Remember** that you need to press the additional SHIFT key on Mac OS X for
PageDown. That means FN-SHIFT-CursorDown for moving in the roster.

[debianpkg]: http://packages.debian.org/mcabber
[ubuntupkg]: http://packages.ubuntu.org/mcabber
[wasteland]: https://wasteland.ml
[driespkg1]: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/mcabber/
[driespkg2]: http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/mcabber/info.html
[Gentoo Portage]:  http://www.gentoo-portage.com/net-im/mcabber/
[Berkano Overlay]: http://tinyurl.com/yurgo6
[berkanoweb]:      http://svn.liveforge.org/berkano/trunk/
[FreeBSD port]:    http://www.freshports.org/net-im/mcabber/
[pkgsrcse]:        http://pkgsrc.se/wip/mcabber
[pkgsrc-wip]:      http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/
[optware-wiki]:    http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/
[Fink]:      http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/mcabber
[MacPorts]:  http://www.macports.org