[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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[c627795] | 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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[58cbbbb2] | 9 | <!ENTITY pidgin-md5sum "7c8bb6f997e05e7929104439872c2844">
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[6571737b] | 10 | <!ENTITY pidgin-size "9.0 MB">
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[58cbbbb2] | 11 | <!ENTITY pidgin-buildsize "215 MB (additional 2 MB for the tests and 91 MB for API docs)">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY pidgin-time "1.9 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for API docs)">
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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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[6e31dd9] | 32 | <para>
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| 33 | <application>Pidgin</application> is a Gtk+ 2 instant messaging client
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| 34 | that can connect with a wide range of networks including AIM, ICQ,
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| 35 | GroupWise, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Zephyr and Yahoo!
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| 36 | </para>
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[dc1cfc46] | 37 |
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[a30a874] | 38 | &lfs77_checked;
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[d8b2c89e] | 39 |
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| 40 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 41 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 42 | <listitem>
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[c627795] | 43 | <para>
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| 44 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&pidgin-download-http;"/>
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| 45 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 46 | </listitem>
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| 47 | <listitem>
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[c627795] | 48 | <para>
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| 49 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&pidgin-download-ftp;"/>
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| 50 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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[c627795] | 53 | <para>
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| 54 | Download MD5 sum: &pidgin-md5sum;
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| 55 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 56 | </listitem>
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| 57 | <listitem>
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[c627795] | 58 | <para>
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| 59 | Download size: &pidgin-size;
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| 60 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 61 | </listitem>
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| 62 | <listitem>
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[c627795] | 63 | <para>
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| 64 | Estimated disk space required: &pidgin-buildsize;
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| 65 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 66 | </listitem>
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| 67 | <listitem>
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[c627795] | 68 | <para>
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| 69 | Estimated build time: &pidgin-time;
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| 70 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 71 | </listitem>
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| 72 | </itemizedlist>
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| 73 |
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[e2abf328] | 74 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
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| 75 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 76 | <listitem>
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| 77 | <para>
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| 78 | Recommended patch:
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[54f8f1c] | 79 | <ulink url="&patch-root;/pidgin-&pidgin-version;-gstreamer1-1.patch"/>
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[e2abf328] | 80 | </para>
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| 81 | </listitem>
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| 82 | </itemizedlist>
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| 83 |
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[d8b2c89e] | 84 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Pidgin Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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[6e31dd9] | 87 | <para role="required">
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[56605b9] | 88 | <xref linkend="gtk2"/>
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[6e31dd9] | 89 | </para>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 92 | <para role="recommended">
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[e2abf328] | 93 | <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>,
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| 94 | <xref linkend="gstreamer10"/> (required for audio support), and
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[6e31dd9] | 95 | <xref linkend="gnutls"/> or
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| 96 | <xref linkend="nss"/>
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| 97 | </para>
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| 98 |
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| 99 | <para>
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| 100 | SSL support is required for the MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Novel Groupwise and
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| 101 | Google Talk protocol plugins. <application>GnuTLS</application> is the
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[c627795] | 102 | preferred method (the Mozilla NSS API is more likely to change and this
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[6e31dd9] | 103 | can cause problems).
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| 104 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 105 |
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| 106 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[6e31dd9] | 107 | <para role="optional">
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[c627795] | 108 | <xref linkend="avahi"/> (required for the Bonjour plugin),
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| 109 | <xref linkend="check"/> (only used during the test suite),
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| 110 | <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
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[54666831] | 111 | <xref linkend="dbus"/>,
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[761b96b] | 112 | <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
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[58cbbbb2] | 113 | <xref linkend="libidn"/> (required, if you wish to run the test suite),
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[761b96b] | 114 | <xref linkend="NetworkManager"/>,
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| 115 | <xref linkend="sqlite"/> (required for the Contact Availability Prediction
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| 116 | plugin),
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| 117 | <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
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| 118 | <xref linkend="tcl"/>,
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| 119 | <xref linkend="tk"/>,
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[665ac79f] | 120 | <ulink url="&gnome-download-http;/evolution-data-server/">
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| 121 | Evolution Data Server</ulink>,
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[a20b14d6] | 122 | <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Farstream">
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| 123 | Farstream (Version 0.1)</ulink>
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| 124 | (required for video and voice support),
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[6e31dd9] | 125 | <ulink url="http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/">Gtkspell</ulink>,
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[a754ee2b] | 126 | <ulink url="http://libgadu.net/">libgadu</ulink>,
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[c627795] | 127 | <ulink url="http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/">Meanwhile</ulink>
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| 128 | (required for Sametime protocol support),
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[6e31dd9] | 129 | <ulink url="http://silcnet.org/software/">SILC Client</ulink>,
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| 130 | <ulink url="http://silcnet.org/software/">SILC Toolkit</ulink>,
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[761b96b] | 131 | <ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/stable/source/zephyr">Zephyr</ulink>, and
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| 132 | <xref linkend="mitkrb"/> (required for Kerberos support in the Zephyr
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| 133 | module),
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[6e31dd9] | 134 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 135 |
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[89af2e1] | 136 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (runtime)</bridgehead>
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| 137 | <para role="optional">
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| 138 | <xref linkend="xdg-utils"/>
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| 139 | </para>
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| 140 |
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[6e31dd9] | 141 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
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| 142 | User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/pidgin"/>
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| 143 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 144 | </sect2>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 147 | <title>Installation of Pidgin</title>
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| 148 |
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[e2abf328] | 149 | <para>
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| 150 | First apply a patch to allow the package to build with the current
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| 151 | <application>gstreamer</application> framework:
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| 152 | </para>
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| 153 |
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| 154 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../pidgin-&pidgin-version;-gstreamer1-1.patch &&
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| 155 | autoreconf -fi</userinput></screen>
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| 156 |
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[6e31dd9] | 157 | <para>
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[58cbbbb2] | 158 | If you wish to run the test suite, make sure that <xref
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| 159 | linkend="libidn"/> is installed and remove the switch
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| 160 | <quote>--disable-idn</quote>. Compile <application>Pidgin</application>
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| 161 | by running the following commands:
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[6e31dd9] | 162 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 163 |
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[e2abf328] | 164 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 165 | --sysconfdir=/etc \
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| 166 | --with-gstreamer=1.0 \
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| 167 | --disable-avahi \
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| 168 | --disable-gtkspell \
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| 169 | --disable-meanwhile \
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| 170 | --disable-idn \
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| 171 | --disable-nm \
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| 172 | --disable-vv \
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| 173 | --disable-tcl &&
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[d8b2c89e] | 174 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 175 |
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[6e31dd9] | 176 | <para>
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| 177 | If you have <xref linkend="doxygen"/> installed
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| 178 | (<xref linkend="graphviz"/> can be used also) and you wish to create the
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[58cbbbb2] | 179 | API documentation, issue: <command>make docs</command>.
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[6e31dd9] | 180 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 181 |
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[c627795] | 182 | <para>
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[58cbbbb2] | 183 | Remember the remarks before <command>configure</command>. To test the
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| 184 | results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
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[c627795] | 185 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 186 |
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[6e31dd9] | 187 | <para>
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| 188 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 189 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 190 |
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| 191 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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[3ca4dbc] | 192 | mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version; &&
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| 193 | cp -v README doc/gtkrc-2.0 /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;</userinput></screen>
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[d8b2c89e] | 194 |
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[6e31dd9] | 195 | <para>
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| 196 | If you created the API documentation, install it using the following
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| 197 | commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 198 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 199 |
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[3ca4dbc] | 200 | <screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api &&
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| 201 | cp -v doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api</userinput></screen>
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| 202 |
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[3284a283] | 203 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 204 | href="../../xincludes/update-icons-and-desktop.xml"/>
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| 205 |
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[d8b2c89e] | 206 | </sect2>
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| 207 |
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| 208 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 209 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 210 |
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[e2abf328] | 211 | <para>
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| 212 | <option>--with-gstreamer=1.0</option>: Remove this switch
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| 213 | and add <option>--disable-gstreamer</option>
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| 214 | if you've not installed <xref linkend="gstreamer10"/>.
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| 215 | </para>
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| 216 |
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[6e31dd9] | 217 | <para>
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[3ca4dbc] | 218 | <option>--disable-avahi</option>: Remove this switch if you've
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[c627795] | 219 | installed <xref linkend="avahi"/>.
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[dc1cfc46] | 220 | </para>
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| 221 |
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[6e31dd9] | 222 | <para>
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[3ca4dbc] | 223 | <option>--disable-gtkspell</option>: Spellchecking. Remove this switch if
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[c627795] | 224 | you've installed
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| 225 | <ulink url="http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/">Gtkspell</ulink>.
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[6e31dd9] | 226 | </para>
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[62431cb3] | 227 |
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[6e31dd9] | 228 | <para>
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[3ca4dbc] | 229 | <option>--disable-meanwhile</option>: Remove this switch if you've
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| 230 | installed <ulink url="http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/">Meanwhile</ulink>.
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[6e31dd9] | 231 | </para>
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[62431cb3] | 232 |
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[6e31dd9] | 233 | <para>
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[3ca4dbc] | 234 | <option>--disable-idn</option>: Remove this switch if you've installed
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[c627795] | 235 | <xref linkend="libidn"/>.
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[6e31dd9] | 236 | </para>
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[62431cb3] | 237 |
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[6e31dd9] | 238 | <para>
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[3ca4dbc] | 239 | <option>--disable-nm</option>: Remove this switch if you've installed
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[c627795] | 240 | <xref linkend="NetworkManager"/>.
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[6e31dd9] | 241 | </para>
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[dc1cfc46] | 242 |
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[6e31dd9] | 243 | <para>
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[3ca4dbc] | 244 | <option>--disable-vv</option>: Video and voice. Remove this switch if
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| 245 | you've installed
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| 246 | <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Farstream">
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| 247 | Farstream (Version 0.1)</ulink>.
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[6e31dd9] | 248 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 249 |
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[6e31dd9] | 250 | <para>
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[3ca4dbc] | 251 | <option>--disable-tcl</option>: Remove this switch if you've installed
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[c627795] | 252 | <xref linkend="tcl"/>.
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[6e31dd9] | 253 | </para>
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[c627795] | 254 |
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[3ca4dbc] | 255 | <para>
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| 256 | <option>--enable-cyrus-sasl</option>: Use this switch if you've installed
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| 257 | <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/> and wish to build
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| 258 | <application>Pidgin</application> with SASL support.
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| 259 | </para>
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| 260 |
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| 261 | <para>
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| 262 | <option>--disable-gnutls</option>: Use this switch if you've got both
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| 263 | <xref linkend="gnutls"/> and <xref linkend="nss"/> installed, but want
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| 264 | to use <xref linkend="nss"/> for the SSL support.
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| 265 | </para>
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| 266 |
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[d8b2c89e] | 267 | </sect2>
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| 268 |
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| 269 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 270 | <title>Configuring Pidgin</title>
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| 271 |
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| 272 | <sect3 id="pidgin-config">
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| 273 | <title>Config Files</title>
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[c627795] | 274 | <para>
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| 275 | <filename>~/.purple/*</filename> and
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| 276 | <filename>~/.gtkrc-02</filename>
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| 277 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 278 |
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| 279 | <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-config">
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[73dd9a12] | 280 | <primary sortas="e-AA.purple-*">~/.purple/*</primary>
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[d8b2c89e] | 281 | </indexterm>
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| 282 |
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| 283 | <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-config">
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[73dd9a12] | 284 | <primary sortas="e-AA.gtkrc-02">~/.gtkrc-02</primary>
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[d8b2c89e] | 285 | </indexterm>
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| 286 | </sect3>
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| 287 |
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| 288 | <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 289 |
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[6e31dd9] | 290 | <para>
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| 291 | Most configuration can be accomplished by using the various preference
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| 292 | settings inside the programs. Additionally, you can create a
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| 293 | <filename>~/.gtkrc-02</filename> file which can store gtk+-2 theme
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| 294 | settings that affect <application>Pidgin</application> and other Gtk+ 2
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| 295 | applications. Note that an example <filename>gtkrc-02</filename> file
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| 296 | was installed during the package installation and can be used as a
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| 297 | starting point or reference.
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| 298 | </para>
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[c627795] | 299 |
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[d8b2c89e] | 300 | </sect3>
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[c627795] | 301 |
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[d8b2c89e] | 302 | </sect2>
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| 303 |
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| 304 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 305 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 306 |
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| 307 | <segmentedlist>
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| 308 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 309 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 310 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 311 |
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| 312 | <seglistitem>
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[6e31dd9] | 313 | <seg>
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[c627795] | 314 | finch, pidgin, purple-client-example,
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[11a83b18] | 315 | purple-remote, purple-send, purple-send-async, and
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[6e31dd9] | 316 | purple-url-handler
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| 317 | </seg>
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| 318 | <seg>
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[6571737b] | 319 | libgnt.so, libpurple.so, and libpurple-client.so
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[6e31dd9] | 320 | </seg>
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| 321 | <seg>
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| 322 | /usr/include/finch,
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| 323 | /usr/include/gnt,
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| 324 | /usr/include/libpurple,
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| 325 | /usr/include/pidgin,
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| 326 | /usr/lib/finch,
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| 327 | /usr/lib/gnt,
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| 328 | /usr/lib/pidgin,
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| 329 | /usr/lib/purple-2,
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| 330 | /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;,
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| 331 | /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin,
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[11a83b18] | 332 | /usr/share/purple, and
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[6e31dd9] | 333 | /usr/share/sounds/purple
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| 334 | </seg>
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[d8b2c89e] | 335 | </seglistitem>
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| 336 | </segmentedlist>
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| 337 |
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| 338 | <variablelist>
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| 339 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 340 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 341 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 342 |
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| 343 | <varlistentry id="pidgin-prog">
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| 344 | <term><command>pidgin</command></term>
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| 345 | <listitem>
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[c627795] | 346 | <para>
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[3ca4dbc] | 347 | is a <application>GTK+</application> 2 instant messaging client.
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[c627795] | 348 | </para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 349 | <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-prog">
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| 350 | <primary sortas="b-pidgin">pidgin</primary>
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| 351 | </indexterm>
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| 352 | </listitem>
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| 353 | </varlistentry>
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| 354 |
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[dc1cfc46] | 355 | <varlistentry id="finch">
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| 356 | <term><command>finch</command></term>
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[d8b2c89e] | 357 | <listitem>
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[c627795] | 358 | <para>
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| 359 | is a text-based instant messaging client.
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| 360 | </para>
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[dc1cfc46] | 361 | <indexterm zone="pidgin finch">
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| 362 | <primary sortas="b-finch">finch</primary>
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[d8b2c89e] | 363 | </indexterm>
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| 364 | </listitem>
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| 365 | </varlistentry>
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[c627795] | 366 |
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