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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.

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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
  1. Alternativley download compiled package and unpack it ====

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
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  • Pls remove mega.nz link and point to official website. Users should not download anything from unofficial website and install. – Alex Jones Jun 16 '22 at 05:42
  • @EdwardTorvalds I note that the mega.nz download link is a pretty old version: qtox_201608051313~34aa905_amd64 .deb . And I also note that Ubuntu from Focal Fossa (20.04) onwards packages qtox anyway. I will take it upon myself to remove the 'download deb' section in light of this... – andrew.46 Jun 16 '22 at 06:48