Using Gajim with git

A good page on how GIT works can be found here. Also, please read our guide on git.

Initial code checkout

    git clone https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim.git

Updating to current version:

    cd gajim && git pull

Launching

    cd gajim
    ./launch.sh

Nightly builds can be found here and there (deb).

Running bleeding edge versions of Gajim and python-nbxmpp together

One of the dependencies (python-nbxmpp library) is developed in-house. If you want to always use the latest version of python-nbxmpp without installing it every time, you can do it like this:

    PYTHONPATH=/an/absolute/path/to/python-nbxmpp/ ./launch.sh

Mixing GIT and Stable

If you run git and then go back to a stable version you may encounter problems, because the stable version cannot understand the new config. So if you have done that, you need to clean you config and create a new one. First, close all Gajim instances and then

• In GNU/Linux

   rm ~/.gajim/config

• In Windows 2000/XP

Start → Run and type

    %appdata%\Gajim

and press Enter

Now locate the config file and remove it and launch the application. A new config file will be created (you need to set accounts and other settings from scratch).

Running both: Stable and GIT

OK. That is also possible but you should avoid mixing the config file.

• In GNU/Linux

   ./launch.sh -p git -s

This creates a config.git (e.g. profile git) and completely separates databases and plugins.