[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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| 9 | <!ENTITY pidgin-md5sum "83f44bf9c076595967f7374c50250176">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY pidgin-size "7.7 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY pidgin-buildsize "172 MB (additinoal 106 MB for API documentation)">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY pidgin-time "2.5 SBU">
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| 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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| 32 | <para><application>Pidgin</application> is an instant messaging client that
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| 33 | can connect with a wide range of networks including AIM, ICQ, GroupWise,
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| 34 | MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Zephyr and Yahoo!.</para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 37 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 38 | <listitem>
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| 39 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&pidgin-download-http;"/></para>
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| 40 | </listitem>
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| 41 | <listitem>
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| 42 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&pidgin-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 43 | </listitem>
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| 44 | <listitem>
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| 45 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &pidgin-md5sum;</para>
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| 46 | </listitem>
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| 47 | <listitem>
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| 48 | <para>Download size: &pidgin-size;</para>
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| 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | <listitem>
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| 51 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &pidgin-buildsize;</para>
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| 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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| 54 | <para>Estimated build time: &pidgin-time;</para>
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| 55 | </listitem>
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| 56 | </itemizedlist>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Pidgin Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 61 | <para role="required"><xref linkend="glib2"/>,
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| 62 | <xref linkend="libxml2"/>, and
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| 63 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-parser"/></para>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional for SSL Support</bridgehead>
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[d5404360] | 66 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gnutls"/> or <xref linkend="nss"/></para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 67 |
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[d5404360] | 68 | <para>SSL support is required for MSN Messenger and Google Talk.
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| 69 | <application>GnuTLS</application> is the preferred method. Note that one of
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[d8b2c89e] | 70 | <xref linkend="firefox"/>,
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| 71 | <xref linkend="thunderbird"/>,
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[d5404360] | 72 | <xref linkend="seamonkey"/>, or
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| 73 | <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/">Mozilla</ulink>
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| 74 | can be used instead of NSS.</para>
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[d8b2c89e] | 75 |
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| 76 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional GUI Tools</bridgehead>
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[d5404360] | 77 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk2"/>
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[d8b2c89e] | 78 | (required to build the GUI interface),
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| 79 | <ulink url="http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/">Gtkspell</ulink>
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| 80 | (for spell-check support and only used if <application>Gtk+</application> is installed),
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| 81 | <xref linkend="xscreensaver"/>
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| 82 | (to check for idleness and only used if <application>Gtk+</application> is installed),
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| 83 | <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>
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| 84 | (only used if <application>Gtk+</application> is installed), and
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| 85 | <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>
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| 86 | (used for session management support)</para>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[d5404360] | 89 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="intltool"/>,
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[d8b2c89e] | 90 | <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
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[d5404360] | 91 | <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/> (requires <xref linkend="python"/> also),
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[d8b2c89e] | 92 | <ulink url="http://silcnet.org/software/">SILC Client</ulink>,
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| 93 | <ulink url="http://silcnet.org/software/">SILC Toolkit</ulink>,
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| 94 | <ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/stable/source/zephyr">zephyr</ulink>,
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| 95 | <xref linkend="gstreamer"/>
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| 96 | (required for audio support),
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| 97 | <xref linkend="evolution-data-server"/>
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| 98 | (required for Evolution integration),
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[8f9c757e] | 99 | <xref linkend="sqlite"/>
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[d8b2c89e] | 100 | (required for the Contact Availability Prediction plugin),
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| 101 | <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>
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| 102 | (required for Jabber support),
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| 103 | <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>
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| 104 | (required for Kerberos support in the Zephyr module),
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[49547f1] | 105 | <xref linkend="avahi"/>,
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[d8b2c89e] | 106 | (required for the Bonjour plugin),
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| 107 | <ulink url="http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/">Meanwhile</ulink>
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| 108 | (required for Sametime protocol support),
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| 109 | <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/">NetworkManager</ulink>
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| 110 | (<ulink url="&gnome-download-http;/NetworkManager/">download</ulink> and
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| 111 | requires that <application>D-Bus</application> is installed),
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| 112 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/check">check</ulink>
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| 113 | (only used during the test suite), and
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| 114 | Gadu-Gadu external libraries (cannot find a URL)</para>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional for Programming Language Support</bridgehead>
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| 117 | <para role="optional"><ulink url="http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page">Mono</ulink>
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| 118 | (experimental),
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| 119 | <xref linkend="tcl"/>, and
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| 120 | <xref linkend="tk"/></para>
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| 121 |
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| 122 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 123 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/pidgin"/></para>
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| 124 |
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| 125 | </sect2>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 128 | <title>Installation of Pidgin</title>
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <para>Compile <application>Pidgin</application> by running the following
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| 131 | commands:</para>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 134 | --with-gconf-schema-file-dir=&gnome-etc-dir;/gconf/schemas \
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| 135 | --disable-gtkui &&
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| 136 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <para> If you have <xref linkend="doxygen"/> installed
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| 139 | (<xref linkend="graphviz"/> can be used also) and you wish to create the
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| 140 | API documentation, issue: <command>make docs</command></para>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>. Note
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| 143 | that the end result of the suite indicates an error. This error is only
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| 144 | due to some locale translation issues and not the actual tests. The
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| 145 | actual result of the tests are displayed about half way through the
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| 146 | tests and should indicate that they passed.</para>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 149 |
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| 150 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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| 151 | install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version; &&
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| 152 | install -v -m644 README* doc/*.txt doc/gtkrc-2.0 \
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| 153 | /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 154 |
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| 155 | <para>If you created the API documentation, install it using the following
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| 156 | commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api &&
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| 159 | install -v -m644 doc/html/* \
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| 160 | /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api</userinput></screen>
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| 161 |
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| 162 | </sect2>
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| 163 |
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| 164 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 165 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | <para><parameter>--with-gconf-schema-file-dir=&gnome-etc-dir;/gconf/schemas</parameter>:
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| 168 | This parameter is used so that the <application>GConf</application> schema
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| 169 | files are installed into the existing database. If
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| 170 | <application>GConf</application> is not installed, the parameter does not
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| 171 | affect the build or installation of the package.</para>
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| 172 |
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| 173 | <para><parameter>--disable-gtkui</parameter>: This parameter is used if
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| 174 | <application>GTK+</application> is not installed. The build will only
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| 175 | produce the <command>finch</command> program, which is a text-based
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| 176 | (<application>Ncurses</application>) only version. Remove this parameter
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| 177 | if you have <application>GTK+</application> installed to build the GUI
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| 178 | <command>pidgin</command> program.</para>
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| 179 |
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| 180 | </sect2>
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| 181 |
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| 182 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 183 | <title>Configuring Pidgin</title>
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| 184 |
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| 185 | <sect3 id="pidgin-config">
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| 186 | <title>Config Files</title>
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| 187 | <para><filename>~/.purple/*</filename> and
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| 188 | <filename>~/.gtkrc-02</filename></para>
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| 189 |
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| 190 | <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-config">
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| 191 | <primary sortas="e-AA-purple-star">~/.purple/*</primary>
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| 192 | </indexterm>
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| 193 |
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| 194 | <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-config">
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| 195 | <primary sortas="e-AA-gtkrc-02">~/.gtkrc-02</primary>
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| 196 | </indexterm>
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| 197 | </sect3>
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| 198 |
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| 199 | <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 200 |
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| 201 | <para>Most configuration can be accomplished by using the various
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| 202 | preference settings inside the programs. Additionally, you can create
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| 203 | a <filename>~/.gtkrc-02</filename> file which can store settings that
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| 204 | affect the <application>Pidgin</application> application. Note that an
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| 205 | example <filename>gtkrc-02</filename> file was installed during the
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| 206 | package installation and can be used as a starting point or
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| 207 | reference.</para>
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| 208 |
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| 209 | </sect3>
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| 210 |
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| 211 | </sect2>
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| 212 |
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| 213 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 214 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 215 |
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| 216 | <segmentedlist>
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| 217 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 218 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 219 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 220 |
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| 221 | <seglistitem>
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| 222 | <seg>finch, pidgin, purple-client-example, purple-remote, purple-send,
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| 223 | purple-send-async, and purple-url-handler</seg>
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| 224 | <seg>libgnt.so, libpurple.so, and libpurple-client.so along with
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| 225 | numerous plugin and support modules located in various subdirectories
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| 226 | of /usr/lib.</seg>
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| 227 | <seg>/usr/include/{finch,gnt,libpurple,pidgin},
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| 228 | /usr/lib/{finch,gnt,pidgin,purple-2},
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| 229 | /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;, /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin, and
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| 230 | /usr/share/sounds/pidgin</seg>
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| 231 | </seglistitem>
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| 232 | </segmentedlist>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <variablelist>
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| 235 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 236 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 237 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 238 |
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| 239 | <varlistentry id="finch">
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| 240 | <term><command>finch</command></term>
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| 241 | <listitem>
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| 242 | <para>is a text-based (<application>Ncurses</application>) instant
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| 243 | messaging client.</para>
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| 244 | <indexterm zone="pidgin finch">
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| 245 | <primary sortas="b-finch">finch</primary>
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| 246 | </indexterm>
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| 247 | </listitem>
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| 248 | </varlistentry>
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| 249 |
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| 250 | <varlistentry id="pidgin-prog">
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| 251 | <term><command>pidgin</command></term>
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| 252 | <listitem>
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| 253 | <para>is an instant messaging client based on the
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| 254 | <application>Gtk+</application> GUI toolkit.</para>
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| 255 | <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-prog">
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| 256 | <primary sortas="b-pidgin">pidgin</primary>
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| 257 | </indexterm>
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| 258 | </listitem>
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| 259 | </varlistentry>
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| 260 |
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| 261 | <varlistentry id="purple-remote">
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| 262 | <term><command>purple-remote</command></term>
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| 263 | <listitem>
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| 264 | <para> is a command-line interface for controlling an already running
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| 265 | instance of <command>pidgin</command></para>
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| 266 | <indexterm zone="pidgin purple-remote">
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| 267 | <primary sortas="b-purple-remote">purple-remote</primary>
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| 268 | </indexterm>
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| 269 | </listitem>
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| 270 | </varlistentry>
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| 271 |
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| 272 | <!-- <varlistentry id="libpidgin-remote">
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| 273 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpidgin-remote.so</filename></term>
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| 274 | <listitem>
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| 275 | <para> contains functions that are used by pidgin-remote</para>
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| 276 | <indexterm zone="pidgin libpidgin-remote">
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| 277 | <primary sortas="c-libpidgin-remote">libpidgin-remote.so</primary>
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| 278 | </indexterm>
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| 279 | </listitem>
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| 280 | </varlistentry> -->
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| 281 |
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| 282 | </variablelist>
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| 283 |
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| 284 | </sect2>
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| 285 |
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| 286 | </sect1>
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