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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: foxymeow on January 19, 2012, 04:29 am

Title: SILC on MAC?
Post by: foxymeow on January 19, 2012, 04:29 am
How do I use SILC on MAC.

I have been trying to figure it out for a good amount of time. Adium doesn't have support for SILC and all of the SILC clients listed on the SILC website either are too old for Lion or can't use tor.

Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: rusty on January 19, 2012, 07:06 am
I've tried and come to the conclusion that it's just not possible on a Mac.

rusty
Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: MacFag on January 19, 2012, 07:42 pm
Just use Pidgin
Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: v01d on January 19, 2012, 10:27 pm
How do I use SILC on MAC.

I have been trying to figure it out for a good amount of time. Adium doesn't have support for SILC and all of the SILC clients listed on the SILC website either are too old for Lion or can't use tor.
To be honest as a vendor nothing you do should be done on Mac OSx or Windows, and if you do you should have full disk encryption set up.
Get Liberte or set up some form of virtualization of network facing apps. Just my two cents.
Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: rusty on January 20, 2012, 12:05 am
Just use Pidgin

Okay, is that working for you right now? I did try it and it failed to compile/make.

rusty
Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: foxymeow on January 20, 2012, 03:13 am
How do I use SILC on MAC.

I have been trying to figure it out for a good amount of time. Adium doesn't have support for SILC and all of the SILC clients listed on the SILC website either are too old for Lion or can't use tor.
To be honest as a vendor nothing you do should be done on Mac OSx or Windows, and if you do you should have full disk encryption set up.
Get Liberte or set up some form of virtualization of network facing apps. Just my two cents.

I would love to but thats just not practical for me.

I've tried and come to the conclusion that it's just not possible on a Mac.

rusty

bummer...guess ill have to stick to using it on my desktop. I love trolling on the forums on my macbook though. My desktop is mostly for business and isn't for forum trolling :D
Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: MacFag on January 21, 2012, 12:03 am
Just use Pidgin

Okay, is that working for you right now? I did try it and it failed to compile/make.

rusty
Yea, I just got it up and running fine. I had to tweak the source headers a bit, but nonethless functions pretty much flawlessly on SILC as I tested it. I don't use Pidgin, though.
Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on January 21, 2012, 12:45 am
Just use Pidgin

Okay, is that working for you right now? I did try it and it failed to compile/make.

rusty
Yea, I just got it up and running fine. I had to tweak the source headers a bit, but nonethless functions pretty much flawlessly on SILC as I tested it. I don't use Pidgin, though.

...well can you post the changes so that Foxy can try ....and we'll worry about the compiling when we get to it...
 :o
Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: rusty on January 21, 2012, 12:48 am
Just use Pidgin

Okay, is that working for you right now? I did try it and it failed to compile/make.

rusty
Yea, I just got it up and running fine. I had to tweak the source headers a bit, but nonethless functions pretty much flawlessly on SILC as I tested it. I don't use Pidgin, though.

SILC on the command line in terminal? Can you share your tweaks so I can get this going. I've got silc running great on the command line.

Thanks,

rusty
Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on January 21, 2012, 01:03 am
...does anyone have any evidence of this apple + osx keystroke recording, or is it the closed development aspect ...thats suggested here?!

Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on January 21, 2012, 01:06 am
How do I use SILC on MAC.

I have been trying to figure it out for a good amount of time. Adium doesn't have support for SILC and all of the SILC clients listed on the SILC website either are too old for Lion or can't use tor.

...which OSX {exact build pls, ..top left menu 'apple' / about ...} do u have or need pidgin running on ?

Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on January 21, 2012, 01:15 am
"For a more native Mac OS X experience, you may be interested in using Adium instead, which uses libpurple (the core of Pidgin) for much of its protocol support.

For Pidgin on OS X, you may find the packages provided through Fink or Macports more convenient than compiling from source."

http://finkproject.org/download/
- "10.6 and 10.7 users: There is not currently a binary installer, and you will need to follow the source install instructions instead."
- http://finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php
        - "The current version, fink-0.31.6, was officially released on 2012-01-03.

            For OS X 10.5-10.7, use fink-0.31.6 - 1312K, .tar.gz format "
        - http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fink/fink-0.31.6.tar.gz
- silc ...files etc seem to be here:
   http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/browse.php
   - think you'll need the 'silc-toolkit' and 'silc-toolkit-shlibs'

http://www.macports.org/install.php

...any good? sorry i've not tried pidgin on OSX...


Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: rusty on January 21, 2012, 01:34 am
"For a more native Mac OS X experience, you may be interested in using Adium instead, which uses libpurple (the core of Pidgin) for much of its protocol support.

For Pidgin on OS X, you may find the packages provided through Fink or Macports more convenient than compiling from source."

http://finkproject.org/download/
- "10.6 and 10.7 users: There is not currently a binary installer, and you will need to follow the source install instructions instead."
- http://finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php
        - "The current version, fink-0.31.6, was officially released on 2012-01-03.

            For OS X 10.5-10.7, use fink-0.31.6 - 1312K, .tar.gz format "
        - http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fink/fink-0.31.6.tar.gz
- silc ...files etc seem to be here:
   http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/browse.php


http://www.macports.org/install.php

...any good? sorry i've not tried pidgin on OSX...

I've got macports running just fine, but I still don't seem to be able to connect to the correct server when I run silc because there is never anybody there where I end up...
Title: Re: SILC on MAC?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on January 21, 2012, 02:49 am
...could be the wrong silc address you are connecting to, or your key doesn't load which the app should find as specified.