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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: raveyote69 on March 09, 2012, 03:13 am

Title: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: raveyote69 on March 09, 2012, 03:13 am
The packages are not available for connecting with pidgin-silc, they are not in the repository.

How would I go about installing silc onto ubuntu in order to connect to the silkroad silc channel?
Title: Re: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: Laughing Man on March 09, 2012, 03:21 am
Compile pidgin from source.
Title: Re: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: raveyote69 on March 09, 2012, 03:30 am
Laughing Man: I dont think I am technically proficient enough to compile pidgin from source.
Title: Re: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: QTC on March 09, 2012, 03:06 pm
Try the ppa package: https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ppa
Title: Re: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: watmm on March 09, 2012, 04:01 pm
Would you say those Ubuntu PPA packages would work with Debian Wheezy, which also has the same problem.
Could compile from source but would rather not.
Title: Re: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: raveyote69 on March 09, 2012, 05:38 pm
Try the ppa package: https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ppa

Thanks!  I didn't know they had a PPA. so the PPA has SILC?
Title: Re: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: QTC on March 09, 2012, 05:39 pm
lol I hope so otherwise I'll end up looking like a jackass.
Title: Re: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: raveyote69 on March 09, 2012, 09:46 pm
lol I hope so otherwise I'll end up looking like a jackass.

hahaha. thanks for the tip, man. i appreciate it.
Title: Re: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: OuterLimits on March 09, 2012, 11:43 pm
Just use the software manager/center, search for pidgin and choose to install it.
Title: Re: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: wannabud on March 10, 2012, 12:52 am
There's no option for SILC protocol in the account menu of pidgin (using linux mint12 lisa live-cd / pidgin 2.10.0 libpurple 2.10.0).

Is there some substitute to http://www.silcnet.org/ ?
Title: Re: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: raveyote69 on March 10, 2012, 07:12 am
There's no option for SILC protocol in the account menu of pidgin (using linux mint12 lisa live-cd / pidgin 2.10.0 libpurple 2.10.0).

Is there some substitute to http://www.silcnet.org/ ?

i would like to know this as well.
Title: Re: How to Connect to Silk Road anonymous SILC channel using Ubuntu?
Post by: wannabud on March 10, 2012, 06:17 pm
Anyone?