Gaim is a multi -protocol instant messanger that supports a variety of
protocols incl;uding msn, aim, jabber and a bunch of others. Since gaim
2.0 the gadu-gadu prtocol has been dropped as there's is uspposedely
no maintainer for it.

Gaim si maintained at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

1. Installation

    GAim is supplied with Fedora Core and has been for quite a while.
    However, there are tarballs , rpms and source from which gaim can
    be built.

2. Building gaim from source

    Gaim is available via subversion from sourceforge and the gaim trunk can
    be checked out ofth e repository with:

        bash $ svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gaim/trunk gaim

    The usual configure/autoconf is supplied. Run "autogen.sh" to build the
    configure script and then run that with the appropriate options. For
    example, to buuild gaimn with gadu gadu:

        bash $ ./autogen.sh
        bash $ ./configure --with-gaddu