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