I tried to look at similar threads. I don't understand the answers. How do I simply install this?
The recommended way would be to build from source, download https://github.com/qTox/qTox and run simple_make.sh
I don't understand how to run make.sh, where to direct it at etc. This OS is so darn difficult to use.
First install git with
sudo apt-get install git
Then clone the project into your destination:
git clone https://github.com/qTox/qTox
git clone https://github.com/toktok/c-toxcore.git toxcore
Install dependencies packages
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev \
libavfilter-dev libavutil-dev libexif-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev \
libgtk2.0-dev libopenal-dev libqrencode-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev \
libsqlcipher-dev libswresample-dev libswscale-dev libxss-dev qrencode qt5-default \
qttools5-dev-tools qttools5-dev libtool autotools-dev automake checkinstall check \
libopus-dev libvpx-dev libsodium-dev libqt5concurrent5
and now you are ready to compile:
1. Compiling toxcore
cd toxcore
cmake .
make -j $(nproc)
sudo make install
echo '/usr/local/lib/' | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/locallib.conf
sudo ldconfig
2. Compile qTox
cd ../qTox
cmake .
make -j $(nproc)
Now you can start the fresh compiled qTox with
./qTox
Create a folder qtox in your home directory by
mkdir ~/qtox
then change into it:
cd ~/qtox
Download qTox from the tox.chat homepage using the wget command:
wget https://build.tox.chat/job/toxic_build_linux_x86-64_release/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/toxic_build_linux_x86-64_release.tar.xz
Uncompress the downloaded file with
unxz toxic_build_linux_x86-64_release.tar.xz
tar xvf toxic_build_linux_x86-64_release.tar
Now you are ready to run qtox with
./run_toxic.sh
