ekg2 - 1:0.4~pre+20120506.1-16+b1 main

EKG2 is an open source instant messenger program for UNIX systems. The program
has a plugin-based structure, and supports multiple protocols, currently
Jabber, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, RivChat, PolChat, NNTP and RSS.
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The program has many useful features. Here is a list - unless specified they
are included in the ekg2-core package.
- irssi-like ncurses interface, with mouse support [ekg2-ui-ncurses]
- experimental GTK+ interface [ekg2-ui-gtk]
- spell checking [ekg2-ui-ncurses]
- jogger.pl blog update support
- a simple CAPTCHA (autoresponder)
- Python and Perl scripting [ekg2-scripting-python, ekg2-scripting-perl]
- launching shell commands on certain events
- encryption support (SIM, GnuPG) [ekg2-core, ekg2-gnupg]
- logging to SQLite, plain text or XML files
- sending SMs (using an external program such as sms-pl)
- mail checking
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This is a metapackage which depends on a set of commonly used EKG2 packages.