How to Spectrum IM support for OF [Alternativ for Kraken]

Hi holger,

As of Friday, the website of Spectrum has changed (meaning the links in the original post have become obsolete).

I actually installed Spectrum on Wednesday on my own, but the new website basically details everything needed for Spectrum 2, as Spectrum 1 is no longer maintained.

The new links are below.

Installation:

Ubuntu/Debian: http://hanzz.github.com/libtransport/documentation/installation/debian_ubuntu.ht ml

CentOS/Fedora/RHEL: http://hanzz.github.com/libtransport/documentation/installation/fedora_rhel.html

Gateway Configuration:

http://hanzz.github.com/libtransport/documentation/tutorials/gateway_mode.html

I installed Spectrum on the same server as the Openfire, was having some issues otherwise.

So for Openfire;

jid: This is the jid for the spectrum transport instance, e.g. msn.hostname.domain (msn.openfireserver.example.com).

password: External component password.

server: IP or hostname of the Openfire server (in my case 127.0.0.1).

port: External component port (default is 5275).

Scroll down until you see the database option, and for a default install choose sqlite3

[database]

Database backend type

“sqlite3”, “mysql”, “pqxx”, or “none” without database backend

type = sqlite3

You also need to change the protocol, i.e. protocol=prpl-msn

As well as the type, i.e. type=msn

The name can be anything, e.g. Spectrum MSN Transport.

I think that’s everything… Make sure you save it to the right place.

Example command would be:

cp /etc/spectrum2/transports/spectrum.cfg.example /etc/spectrum2/transports/msn.cfg

Hope that helps.

Best,

Gary Shergill