Hello, and thanks for trying mcabber. For installation instructions, have a look at the INSTALL file. A configuration file is necessary to start mcabber. Its name is $HOME/.mcabber/mcabberrc (or $HOME/.mcabberrc). A sample configuration file, "mcabberrc.example", is provided in this directory. Copy it and modify it to fit your needs. You can use mcabber "-f" option to specify another configuration file. This software is under development, please give me some feedback (and some patches if you can!). Or just tell me you're using it... ;-) There is a Mercurial repository on mcabber's website and a Jabber conference room: . Mikael