Chatty

A libpurple messaging client

Build and install

Install dependencies

On a Debian based system run

    sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
    sudo apt-get -y build-dep .

For an explicit list of dependencies check the Build-Depends entry in the debian/control file.

Libhandy (libhandy-0.0-dev) is available in PureOS and Debian's experimental distribution. If you don't want to fetch it from there you can build it from souce.

Build and install the SMS plugin

git clone git@source.puri.sm:Librem5/purple-mm-sms.git
cd purple-mm-sms
make
make install

This can be skipped if SMS support is not needed.

Build and install the 'carbons' plugin

Message synchronization between devices according to XEP-0280

git clone https://github.com/gkdr/carbons.git
cd carbons
make
make install

Build and install the 'lurch' plugin

Please go to the git page where you'll find information on how to build and use the lurch OMEMO plugin

This can be skipped if encrypted messaging is not needed.

Build and install the 'purple-matrix' plugin

Please go to the git page where you'll find information on how to build and install the Matrix messenger plugin

This can be skipped if Matrix messaging is not needed.

Build and install the 'purple-telegram' plugin

Please go to the git page where you'll find information on how to build and install the Telegram messenger plugin

This can be skipped if Telegram messaging is not needed.

Build and install 'libfeedback'

Please go to the git page where you'll find information on how to build and use Feedbackd and libfeedback

Build Chatty

meson build
ninja -C build

Running from the source tree

To run Chatty from source tree (without installing) do:

build/run

Commands

In a messaging conversation (except SMS conversations) the following commands can be used:

lurch plugin

• '/lurch help': Displays a list with available commands.
• '/lurch uninstall': Uninstalls this device from OMEMO by removing its device ID from the devicelist.
• '/lurch blacklist add': Adds conversation partner to blacklist.
• '/lurch blacklist remove': Removes conversation partner from blacklist.
• '/lurch show id own': Displays this device's ID.
• '/lurch show id list': Displays this account's devicelist.
• '/lurch show fp own': Displays this device's key fingerprint.
• '/lurch show fp conv': Displays the fingerprints of all participating devices.
• '/lurch remove id ': Removes a device ID from the own devicelist.

purple-mm-sms plugin

• '/mm-sms help': Displays a list with available commands.
• '/mm-sms status': Show modem status.

XMPP account

If you don't have an XMPP account yet and want to subscribe to a service then please make sure that the server supports the following XEPs:

• XEP-0237: Roster Versioning
• XEP-0198: Stream Management
• XEP-0280: Message Carbons
• XEP-0352: Client State Indication
• XEP-0313: Message Archive Management
• XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload