Step-by-step – ICQ MX Gnu/Linux 19 Installation

Installing

2. 2. Downloading

   Download ICQ Messenger for MX Linux

   ICQ Linux tar.xz 32/64-bit

   Download ICQ for MX Linux

   If possible Select directly “Open with Archive Manager”!

3. 3. Extracting

   Then Extract into /tmp Directory
   Possibly Double-Click/Right-Click and Open with Archive Manager:

   
   Or from Command Line:

   tar xvzf ~/Downloads/icq*.tar.xz -C /tmp/

4. 4. Installing

   Next to Install ICQ App on MX Linux
   (For a Local Setup without sudo Permission then simply put it into your Home and Skip Permissions Fixing.)
   So for a System-Wide Installation Execute:

   sudo mv /tmp/icq* /opt/icq

   And then to Fix Permissions with:

   sudo chown -R root:root /opt/icq

   Again to Make a Simlink for Easy Launching do:

   sudo ln -s /opt/icq/ICQ /usr/local/bin/icq