Install ekg2 by entering the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update sudo apt install ekg2
Description:
instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems
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. . 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 . This is a metapackage which depends on a set of commonly used EKG2 packages.
Homepage: http://ekg2.org/
Version: 1:0.4~pre+20120506.1-14build1
Section: universe/net