IceChat on Linux
IceChat 9 works only partially on Linux.
The following describes what works and under which conditions.
IceChat 9
- Install the mono package.
- Get the icechat-portable-4.5.zip from github
- Extract the zip content under some folder for running.
Let's assume it is placed under the home folder as follows:~/IceChat9/
you can now run the following command in the command line:
mono ~/IceChat9/IceChat2009.exe -profile [pathToProfile/profileName]
Example:
mono ~/IceChat9/IceChat2009.exe -profile data
In the above example, a profile will be created inside the IceChat folder under the data folder.
When IceChat runs for the first time, it offers to import setting from its predecessor, IceChat 7. See First Run for details.
Notes
There are several issues with running IceChat 9 under Linux:
The Windowed mode does not work, only Tabbed mode is available.
Some sites do not connect with SSL set on. This is being worked on, and will be updated as soon as the problem is fixed.
IceChat 9 does not work under wine.
For IceChat 9 to work under wine, the following packages are required to be installed:
- wine
- wine-mono
- wine-gecko
Then, simply use the IceChat icon which is created on the desktop. However, there's some problem and wine does not run IceChat.
The above was tested with Manjaro distro in July 2017. The mono package version is 5.0.0 and wine-mono version is 4.7.0
