Extracted from pidgin-2.5.7/debian/control:
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libpurple0 - multi-protocol instant messaging library
libpurple is a library intended to be used by programmers seeking
to write an IM client that connects to many IM networks.
Currently supported are:
AIM/ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, IRC, Jabber/XMPP, Napster, Zephyr, Gadu-Gadu, Bonjour,
Groupwise, Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, QQ, and MySpaceIM.
Some extra packages are suggested to use increased functionality:
* tcl8.4, tk8.4:
- Support for writing plugins with Tcl/Tk
pidgin - graphical multi-protocol instant messaging client for X
Pidgin is a graphical, modular Instant Messaging client capable of using
AIM/ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, IRC, Jabber/XMPP, Napster, Zephyr, Gadu-Gadu, Bonjour,
Groupwise, Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, QQ, and MySpaceIM all at once.
Some extra packages are recommended to use the core functionality present
in most pidgin installations:
* gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
- Sound support.
More extra packages are suggested to use increased functionality:
* gnome-panel | kdebase-workspace-bin | docker:
- To use the system tray icon functionality (minimizing to an icon, having
the icon blink when there are new messages, etc.)
* evolution-data-server:
- For interfacing with an Evolution address book
* libsqlite3-0:
- To use Contact Availability Prediction plugin
pidgin-data - multi-protocol instant messaging client - data files
This package contains architecture-independent supporting data files
required for use with pidgin, such as documentation, icons, translations,
and sounds.
pidgin-dev - multi-protocol instant messaging client - development files
This package contains the headers and other development files not included in
the main pidgin package. Install this if you wish to compile your own plugins.
If you are creating a pidgin plugin package, please be sure to read
/usr/share/doc/pidgin-dev/README.Debian.dev after installing pidgin-dev.
pidgin-dbg - Debugging symbols for Pidgin
This package includes the debugging symbols useful for debugging Pidgin
and its plugins, contained in the pidgin package. The debugging symbols are
used for execution tracing and core dump analysis.
finch - text-based multi-protocol instant messaging client
Finch is a text/console-based, modular instant messaging client capable of
using AIM/ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, IRC, Jabber/XMPP, Napster, Zephyr, Gadu-Gadu,
Bonjour, Groupwise, Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, QQ, and MySpaceIM all at once.
Some extra packages are recommended to use the core functionality present
in most finch installations:
* gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
- Sound support.
More extra packages are suggested to use increased functionality:
* libx11-6
- To use the Clipboard and/or Toaster plugins.
finch-dev - text-based multi-protocol instant messaging client - development
This package contains the headers and other development files not included in
the main finch package. Install this if you wish to compile your own plugins,
or would like to compile programs that use the libgnt library.
libpurple-dev - multi-protocol instant messaging library - development files
This package contains the headers and other development files not included in
the main libpurple0 package. Install this if you wish to compile your own
client-agnostic plugins, or would like to compile programs that use
libpurple.
libpurple-bin - multi-protocol instant messaging library - extra utilities
This package contains the utilities not included in the main libpurple0
package. Currently included are: purple-remote, purple-send,
purple-send-async, and purple-url-handler,
Extracted from pidgin-2.5.7/debian/changelog:
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pidgin (2.5.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream version
- Fixes connecting to Yahoo (Closes: #533729)
-- Ari Pollak <ari@NOSPAM> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:27:48 -0400
pidgin (2.5.6-1) unstable; urgency=high
* New upstream version
- Fixes a bunch of security bugs: CVE-2009-1373, CVE-2009-1374,
CVE-2009-1375, and CVE-2009-1376
- Fixes a crash in XMPP due to some XML parsing interactions
(Closes: #519112)
* Fix a missing comma in build-depends (Closes: #520888)
-- Ari Pollak <ari@NOSPAM> Thu, 21 May 2009 10:22:23 -0400
pidgin-2.5.7/README:
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Purple, Pidgin and Finch
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See AUTHORS and COPYRIGHT for the list of contributors.
libpurple is a library intended to be used by programmers seeking
to write an IM client that connects to many IM networks. It supports
AIM, ICQ, XMPP, MSN and Yahoo!, among others.
Pidgin is an graphical IM client written in C which uses the GTK+
toolkit.
Finch is a text-based IM client written in C which uses the ncurses
toolkit.
These programs are not endorsed by, nor affiliated with, AOL nor any
other company in any way.
BUILD
=====
Read the 'INSTALL' file for more detailed directions.
These programs use the standard ./configure ; make. You need to use
gmake, BSD make probably won't work. Remember, run ./configure --help
to see what build options are available.
In order to compile Pidgin you need to have GTK+ 2.0 installed (as
well as the development files!). The configure script will fail if you
don't. If you don't have GTK+ 2.0 installed, you should install it
using your distribution's package management tools.
For sound support, you also need gstreamer 0.10 or higher. For
spellchecking support, you need libgtkspell (http://gtkspell.sf.net/).
Your distro of choice probably already includes these, just be sure to
install the development packages.
RUN
===
You should run 'make install' as root to make sure plugins and other files
get installed into locations they want to be in. Once you've done that,
you only need to run 'pidgin' or 'finch'.
To get started, simply add a new account.
If you come across a bug, please report it at: http://pidgin.im
PLUGINS
=======
If you do not wish to enable the plugin support within Purple, run the
./configure script with the --disable-plugins option and recompile your
source code. This will prevent the ability to load plugins.
'make install' puts the plugins in $PREFIX/lib/purple (PREFIX being what
you specified when you ./configure'd - it defaults to /usr/local). Purple
looks for the plugins in that directory by default. Plugins can be installed
per-user in ~/.purple/plugins as well. Pidgin and Finch also look in
$PREFIX/lib/pidgin and $PREFIX/lib/finch for UI-specific, respectively.
To build a plugin from a .c file, put it in the plugins/ directory in
the source and run 'make filename.so', e.g. if you have the .c file
'kickass.c', put it in the plugins/ directory, and from that directory,
run 'make kickass.so'.
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