[d8b2c89e] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[fce275e] | 7 | <!ENTITY pidgin-download-http "&sourceforge-repo;/pidgin/pidgin-&pidgin-version;.tar.bz2">
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[d8b2c89e] | 8 | <!ENTITY pidgin-download-ftp " ">
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[5d6a6e6] | 9 | <!ENTITY pidgin-md5sum "f2b210f2562865d870f193ff1fe8ea75">
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[dc1cfc46] | 10 | <!ENTITY pidgin-size "9.5 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY pidgin-buildsize "244 MB (additinoal 106 MB for API documentation)">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY pidgin-time "1.9 SBU">
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[d8b2c89e] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect1 id="pidgin" xreflabel="Pidgin-&pidgin-version;">
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| 16 | <?dbhtml filename="pidgin.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>Pidgin-&pidgin-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="pidgin">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-Pidgin">Pidgin</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to Pidgin</title>
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| 31 |
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[dc1cfc46] | 32 | <para><application>Pidgin</application> is a Gtk+-2 instant messaging
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| 33 | client that can connect with a wide range of networks including AIM, ICQ,
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| 34 | GroupWise, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Zephyr and
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| 35 | Yahoo!.</para>
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| 36 |
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[4c77a949] | 37 | &lfs71_checked;
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[d8b2c89e] | 38 |
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| 39 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 40 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 41 | <listitem>
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| 42 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&pidgin-download-http;"/></para>
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| 43 | </listitem>
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| 44 | <listitem>
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| 45 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&pidgin-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 46 | </listitem>
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| 47 | <listitem>
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| 48 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &pidgin-md5sum;</para>
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| 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | <listitem>
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| 51 | <para>Download size: &pidgin-size;</para>
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| 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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| 54 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &pidgin-buildsize;</para>
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| 55 | </listitem>
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| 56 | <listitem>
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| 57 | <para>Estimated build time: &pidgin-time;</para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 | </itemizedlist>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Pidgin Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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[dc1cfc46] | 64 | <para role="required"><xref linkend="gtk2"/> and
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| 65 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-parser"/>. <application>Gtk+-2</application> is
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| 66 | required to build <application>Pidgin</application>, however, if you
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| 67 | configure <application>Pidgin</application> with the option
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| 68 | <option>--disable-gtkui</option>, it is possible to compile the command
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| 69 | line <command>finch</command> program without
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| 70 | <application>Gtk+-2</application> installed.</para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 71 |
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| 72 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional for SSL Support</bridgehead>
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[dc1cfc46] | 73 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gnutls"/> or
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| 74 | <xref linkend="nss"/></para>
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| 75 |
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[62431cb3] | 76 | <para>SSL support is required for the MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Novel
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| 77 | Groupwise and Google Talk protocol plugins.
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| 78 | <application>GnuTLS</application> is the preferred method (the Mozilla nss
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| 79 | API is more likely to change and this can cause problems).</para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 80 |
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| 81 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[dc1cfc46] | 82 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="xscreensaver"/>,
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| 83 | <ulink url="http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/">Gtkspell</ulink>,
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| 84 | <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>, <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
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| 85 | <xref linkend="intltool"/>, <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
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| 86 | <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>, <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
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[d8b2c89e] | 87 | <ulink url="http://silcnet.org/software/">SILC Client</ulink>,
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| 88 | <ulink url="http://silcnet.org/software/">SILC Toolkit</ulink>,
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| 89 | <ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/stable/source/zephyr">zephyr</ulink>,
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[dc1cfc46] | 90 | <xref linkend="gstreamer"/> (required for audio support),
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[c5e64130] | 91 | <xref linkend="farsight2"/> (required for video and voice support),
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[dc1cfc46] | 92 | <xref linkend="evolution-data-server"/>,
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| 93 | <xref linkend="sqlite"/> (required for the Contact Availability Prediction
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| 94 | plugin), <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
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| 95 | <xref linkend="mitkrb"/> (required for Kerberos support in the Zephyr
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| 96 | module), <xref linkend="avahi"/>, (required for the Bonjour plugin),
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[d8b2c89e] | 97 | <ulink url="http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/">Meanwhile</ulink>
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[dc1cfc46] | 98 | (required for Sametime protocol support), <ulink
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| 99 | url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/">NetworkManager</ulink>,
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| 100 | <ulink url="http://toxygen.net/libgadu/">libgadu</ulink>,
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| 101 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/check">check</ulink> (only
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| 102 | used during the test suite) and <xref linkend="tcl"/></para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 103 |
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| 104 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 105 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/pidgin"/></para>
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| 106 |
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| 107 | </sect2>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 110 | <title>Installation of Pidgin</title>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <para>Compile <application>Pidgin</application> by running the following
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| 113 | commands:</para>
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| 114 |
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[5d6a6e6] | 115 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-screensaver \
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[62431cb3] | 116 | --disable-meanwhile --disable-avahi --disable-nm --disable-tcl \
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| 117 | --disable-nss --disable-gnutls --disable-idn --disable-vv \
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| 118 | --disable-gtkspell --disable-gstreamer --disable-dbus \
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[650f4ba] | 119 | --with-gconf-schema-file-dir=$GNOME_SYSCONFDIR/gconf/schemas &&
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[d8b2c89e] | 120 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 121 |
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| 122 | <para> If you have <xref linkend="doxygen"/> installed
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| 123 | (<xref linkend="graphviz"/> can be used also) and you wish to create the
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| 124 | API documentation, issue: <command>make docs</command></para>
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| 125 |
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[dc1cfc46] | 126 | <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 127 |
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[dc1cfc46] | 128 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
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| 129 | user:</para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 130 |
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| 131 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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[dc1cfc46] | 132 | mkdir /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version; &&
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| 133 | cp README doc/gtkrc-2.0 /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;</userinput></screen>
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[d8b2c89e] | 134 |
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| 135 | <para>If you created the API documentation, install it using the following
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| 136 | commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 137 |
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[dc1cfc46] | 138 | <screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api &&
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| 139 | cp doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api</userinput></screen>
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[d8b2c89e] | 140 |
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| 141 | </sect2>
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| 142 |
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| 143 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 144 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 145 |
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[5d6a6e6] | 146 | <!-- <para><parameter>LIBS="-lm -lX11"</parameter>: This avoids
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[dc1cfc46] | 147 | problems linking with <command>ld</command> from
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| 148 | <application>binutils-2.22</application>. This parameter is not needed with
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| 149 | earlier versions of <application>binutils</application>. If you
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| 150 | haven't installed <application>libX11</application> and are just
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| 151 | compiling <command>finch</command>, remove the "-lX11"
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[5d6a6e6] | 152 | part.</para> -->
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[dc1cfc46] | 153 |
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| 154 | <para>
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[650f4ba] | 155 | <option>--with-gconf-schema-file-dir=$GNOME_SYSCONFDIR/gconf/schemas</option>:
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[d8b2c89e] | 156 | This parameter is used so that the <application>GConf</application> schema
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| 157 | files are installed into the existing database. If
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| 158 | <application>GConf</application> is not installed, the parameter does not
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| 159 | affect the build or installation of the package.</para>
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| 160 |
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[dc1cfc46] | 161 | <para><option>--disable-screensaver</option>: Remove this option if
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[62431cb3] | 162 | you installed <application>libXscrnsaver</application> before you installed
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| 163 | <application>libXext</application>.</para>
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[dc1cfc46] | 164 |
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| 165 | <para><option>--disable-meanwhile</option>: Remove this option if
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| 166 | you've installed
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| 167 | <ulink url="http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/">Meanwhile</ulink>.</para>
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| 168 |
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| 169 | <para><option>--disable-avahi</option>: Remove this option if you've
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| 170 | installed <xref linkend="avahi"/>.</para>
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| 171 |
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| 172 | <para><option>--disable-nm</option>: Remove this option if you've
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| 173 | installed <ulink
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| 174 | url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/">NetworkManager</ulink>.
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| 175 | </para>
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| 176 |
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| 177 | <para><option>--disable-tcl</option>: Remove this option if you've
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| 178 | installed <xref linkend="tcl"/>.</para>
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| 179 |
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[62431cb3] | 180 | <para><option>--disable-nss</option> <option>--disable-gnutls</option>:
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| 181 | Remove these options if you've installed
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| 182 | <xref linkend="gnutls"/>.</para>
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| 183 |
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| 184 | <para><option>--disable-idn</option>: Remove this option if you've
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| 185 | installed <xref linkend="libidn"/>.</para>
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| 186 |
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| 187 | <para><option>--disable-vv</option>: Video and voice. Remove this
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[c5e64130] | 188 | option if you've installed <xref linkend="farsight2"/>.</para>
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[62431cb3] | 189 |
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| 190 | <para><option>--disable-gtkspell</option>: Spellchecking. Remove this
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| 191 | option if you've installed
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| 192 | <ulink url="http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/">Gtkspell</ulink>.</para>
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| 193 |
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| 194 | <para><option>--disable-gstreamer</option>: Sounds. Remove this option if
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| 195 | you've installed <xref linkend="gstreamer"/>.</para>
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| 196 |
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| 197 | <para><option>--disable-dbus</option>: Remove this option if you've
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| 198 | installed <xref linkend="dbus"/>.</para>
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[dc1cfc46] | 199 |
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[62431cb3] | 200 | <para><option>--disable-gtkui</option>: Use this option if you've not
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[dc1cfc46] | 201 | installed <xref linkend="gtk2"/> and you just want the
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| 202 | <application>Ncurses</application> based <command>finch</command>
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| 203 | program.</para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 204 |
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| 205 | </sect2>
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| 206 |
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| 207 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 208 | <title>Configuring Pidgin</title>
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| 209 |
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| 210 | <sect3 id="pidgin-config">
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| 211 | <title>Config Files</title>
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| 212 | <para><filename>~/.purple/*</filename> and
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| 213 | <filename>~/.gtkrc-02</filename></para>
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| 214 |
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| 215 | <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-config">
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| 216 | <primary sortas="e-AA-purple-star">~/.purple/*</primary>
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| 217 | </indexterm>
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| 218 |
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| 219 | <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-config">
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| 220 | <primary sortas="e-AA-gtkrc-02">~/.gtkrc-02</primary>
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| 221 | </indexterm>
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| 222 | </sect3>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 225 |
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| 226 | <para>Most configuration can be accomplished by using the various
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| 227 | preference settings inside the programs. Additionally, you can create
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[dc1cfc46] | 228 | a <filename>~/.gtkrc-02</filename> file which can store gtk+-2 theme
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| 229 | settings that affect <application>Pidgin</application> and other gtk+-2
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| 230 | applications. Note that an example <filename>gtkrc-02</filename> file was
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| 231 | installed during the package installation and can be used as a starting
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| 232 | point or reference.</para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 233 |
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| 234 | </sect3>
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| 235 |
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| 236 | </sect2>
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| 237 |
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| 238 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 239 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 240 |
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| 241 | <segmentedlist>
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| 242 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 243 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 244 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 245 |
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| 246 | <seglistitem>
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| 247 | <seg>finch, pidgin, purple-client-example, purple-remote, purple-send,
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| 248 | purple-send-async, and purple-url-handler</seg>
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| 249 | <seg>libgnt.so, libpurple.so, and libpurple-client.so along with
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| 250 | numerous plugin and support modules located in various subdirectories
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| 251 | of /usr/lib.</seg>
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[dc1cfc46] | 252 | <seg>/usr/include/finch, /usr/include/gnt, /usr/include/libpurple,
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| 253 | /usr/include/pidgin, /usr/lib/finch, /usr/lib/gnt, /usr/lib/pidgin,
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| 254 | /usr/lib/purple-2, /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;,
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| 255 | /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin, /usr/share/purple and
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| 256 | /usr/share/sounds/purple</seg>
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[d8b2c89e] | 257 | </seglistitem>
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| 258 | </segmentedlist>
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| 259 |
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| 260 | <variablelist>
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| 261 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 262 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 263 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 264 |
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| 265 | <varlistentry id="pidgin-prog">
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| 266 | <term><command>pidgin</command></term>
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| 267 | <listitem>
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| 268 | <para>is an instant messaging client based on the
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[dc1cfc46] | 269 | <application>Gtk+-2</application> GUI toolkit.</para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 270 | <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-prog">
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| 271 | <primary sortas="b-pidgin">pidgin</primary>
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| 272 | </indexterm>
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| 273 | </listitem>
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| 274 | </varlistentry>
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| 275 |
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[dc1cfc46] | 276 | <varlistentry id="finch">
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| 277 | <term><command>finch</command></term>
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[d8b2c89e] | 278 | <listitem>
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[dc1cfc46] | 279 | <para>is a text-based (<application>Ncurses</application>) instant
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| 280 | messaging client.</para>
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| 281 | <indexterm zone="pidgin finch">
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| 282 | <primary sortas="b-finch">finch</primary>
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[d8b2c89e] | 283 | </indexterm>
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| 284 | </listitem>
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| 285 | </varlistentry>
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| 286 |
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| 287 | </variablelist>
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| 288 |
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| 289 | </sect2>
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| 290 |
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| 291 | </sect1>
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