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Installing on Debian/Ubuntu

We have APT repositories for Debian and Ubuntu that make it very easy to install spectrum. Currently there are packages for Debian Lenny (stable), Debian Squeeze (testing), and every Ubuntu distribution from Hardy Heron (8.04) to Lucid Lynx (10.04).

To use the repositories, just add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://packages.spectrum.im <dist> spectrum

where <dist> is either lenny, squeeze, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic or lucid. If you are unsure, you can usually find your distribution in the file /etc/lsb-release. We also have a source repository at the same location if you want to build the package yourself.

Add GPG key

After you have added the repository, you still have to import the GPG key that is used to sign the packages in the repository. You can do this in two ways:

You can download and add the key manually (apt-key requires root privileges):

 wget -O - http://packages.spectrum.im/keys/apt-repository@fsinf.at | apt-key add -

You can simply update the repositories and install the fsinf-keyring packages:

 apt-get update
 apt-get install fsinf-keyring
 apt-get update

Don’t worry about the warnings that the packages can’t be identified, they will be gone after you installed the fsinf-keyring package.

Install minimal libpurple

If you don’t want the spectrum package to pull in too many dependencies, you can install the libpurple0-minimal package manually. It pulls in way less dependencies, but currently thats still quite a few:

apt-get install libpurple0-minimal

Install spectrum - stable version

After you have done that, simply do:

apt-get install spectrum

Note that these repositories pull in quite a few dependencies, depending on the distribution you use.

Install spectrum - development version

If you want to try newest features or help us with testing, you can use the development packages. The packages are rebuild daily at 6:00 AM CEST.

apt-get install spectrum-dev

After you have successfully installed spectrum, you can start configuring spectrum instances.