source: xsoft/other/pidgin.xml@ 62431cb3

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  <!ENTITY pidgin-download-http "&sourceforge-repo;/pidgin/pidgin-&pidgin-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY pidgin-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY pidgin-md5sum        "e1453c9093c4f32beec19abd14069a3f">
  <!ENTITY pidgin-size          "9.5 MB">
  <!ENTITY pidgin-buildsize     "244 MB (additinoal 106 MB for API documentation)">
  <!ENTITY pidgin-time          "1.9 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="pidgin" xreflabel="Pidgin-&pidgin-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="pidgin.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Pidgin-&pidgin-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="pidgin">
    <primary sortas="a-Pidgin">Pidgin</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Pidgin</title>

    <para><application>Pidgin</application> is a Gtk+-2 instant messaging
    client that can connect with a wide range of networks including AIM, ICQ,
    GroupWise, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Zephyr and
    Yahoo!.</para>

    &lfs70_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&pidgin-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&pidgin-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &pidgin-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &pidgin-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &pidgin-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &pidgin-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Pidgin Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="gtk2"/> and
    <xref linkend="perl-xml-parser"/>. <application>Gtk+-2</application> is
    required to build <application>Pidgin</application>, however, if you
    configure <application>Pidgin</application> with the option
    <option>--disable-gtkui</option>, it is possible to compile the command
    line <command>finch</command> program without
    <application>Gtk+-2</application> installed.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional for SSL Support</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gnutls"/> or
    <xref linkend="nss"/></para>

    <para>SSL support is required for the MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Novel
    Groupwise and Google Talk protocol plugins.
    <application>GnuTLS</application> is the preferred method (the Mozilla nss
    API is more likely to change and this can cause problems).</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="xscreensaver"/>,
    <ulink url="http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/">Gtkspell</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>, <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
    <xref linkend="intltool"/>, <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
    <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>, <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
    <ulink url="http://silcnet.org/software/">SILC Client</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://silcnet.org/software/">SILC Toolkit</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/stable/source/zephyr">zephyr</ulink>,
    <xref linkend="gstreamer"/> (required for audio support),
    <xref linkend="evolution-data-server"/>,
    <xref linkend="sqlite"/> (required for the Contact Availability Prediction
    plugin), <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
    <xref linkend="mitkrb"/> (required for Kerberos support in the Zephyr
    module), <xref linkend="avahi"/>, (required for the Bonjour plugin),
    <ulink url="http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/">Meanwhile</ulink>
    (required for Sametime protocol support), <ulink
    url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/">NetworkManager</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://toxygen.net/libgadu/">libgadu</ulink>,
    <ulink
    url="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/farstream/releases/farsight2/">Farsight2</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/check">check</ulink> (only
    used during the test suite) and <xref linkend="tcl"/></para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/pidgin"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Pidgin</title>

    <para>Compile <application>Pidgin</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>LIBS=&quot;-lm -lX11&quot; ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-screensaver \
  --disable-meanwhile --disable-avahi --disable-nm --disable-tcl \
  --disable-nss --disable-gnutls --disable-idn --disable-vv \
  --disable-gtkspell --disable-gstreamer --disable-dbus \
  --with-gconf-schema-file-dir=&gnome-etc-dir;/gconf/schemas &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para> If you have <xref linkend="doxygen"/> installed
    (<xref linkend="graphviz"/> can be used also) and you wish to create the
    API documentation, issue: <command>make docs</command></para>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
    user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
mkdir /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version; &amp;&amp;
cp README doc/gtkrc-2.0 /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you created the API documentation, install it using the following
    commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api &amp;&amp;
cp doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><parameter>LIBS=&quot;-lm -lX11&quot;</parameter>: This avoids
    problems linking with <command>ld</command> from
    <application>binutils-2.22</application>. This parameter is not needed with
    earlier versions of <application>binutils</application>. If you
    haven&apos;t installed <application>libX11</application> and are just
    compiling <command>finch</command>, remove the &quot;-lX11&quot;
    part.</para>

    <para>
    <option>--with-gconf-schema-file-dir=&gnome-etc-dir;/gconf/schemas</option>:
    This parameter is used so that the <application>GConf</application> schema
    files are installed into the existing database. If
    <application>GConf</application> is not installed, the parameter does not
    affect the build or installation of the package.</para>

    <para><option>--disable-screensaver</option>: Remove this option if
    you installed <application>libXscrnsaver</application> before you installed
    <application>libXext</application>.</para>

    <para><option>--disable-meanwhile</option>: Remove this option if
    you&apos;ve installed
    <ulink url="http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/">Meanwhile</ulink>.</para>

    <para><option>--disable-avahi</option>: Remove this option if you&apos;ve
    installed <xref linkend="avahi"/>.</para>

    <para><option>--disable-nm</option>: Remove this option if you&apos;ve
    installed <ulink
    url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/">NetworkManager</ulink>.
    </para>

    <para><option>--disable-tcl</option>: Remove this option if you&apos;ve
    installed <xref linkend="tcl"/>.</para>

    <para><option>--disable-nss</option> <option>--disable-gnutls</option>:
    Remove these options if you&apos;ve installed
    <xref linkend="gnutls"/>.</para>

    <para><option>--disable-idn</option>: Remove this option if you&apos;ve
    installed <xref linkend="libidn"/>.</para>

    <para><option>--disable-vv</option>: Video and voice. Remove this
    option if you&apos;ve installed <ulink
    url="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/farstream/releases/farsight2/">Farsight2</ulink>.
    </para>

    <para><option>--disable-gtkspell</option>: Spellchecking. Remove this
    option if you&apos;ve installed
    <ulink url="http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/">Gtkspell</ulink>.</para>

    <para><option>--disable-gstreamer</option>: Sounds. Remove this option if
    you&apos;ve installed <xref linkend="gstreamer"/>.</para>

    <para><option>--disable-dbus</option>: Remove this option if you&apos;ve
    installed <xref linkend="dbus"/>.</para>

    <para><option>--disable-gtkui</option>: Use this option if you&apos;ve not
    installed <xref linkend="gtk2"/> and you just want the
    <application>Ncurses</application> based <command>finch</command>
    program.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Pidgin</title>

    <sect3 id="pidgin-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>
      <para><filename>~/.purple/*</filename> and
      <filename>~/.gtkrc-02</filename></para>

      <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA-purple-star">~/.purple/*</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA-gtkrc-02">~/.gtkrc-02</primary>
      </indexterm>
    </sect3>

    <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>Most configuration can be accomplished by using the various
      preference settings inside the programs. Additionally, you can create
      a <filename>~/.gtkrc-02</filename> file which can store gtk+-2 theme
      settings that affect <application>Pidgin</application> and other gtk+-2
      applications. Note that an example <filename>gtkrc-02</filename> file was
      installed during the package installation and can be used as a starting
      point or reference.</para>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>finch, pidgin, purple-client-example, purple-remote, purple-send,
        purple-send-async, and purple-url-handler</seg>
        <seg>libgnt.so, libpurple.so, and libpurple-client.so along with
        numerous plugin and support modules located in various subdirectories
        of /usr/lib.</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/finch, /usr/include/gnt, /usr/include/libpurple,
        /usr/include/pidgin, /usr/lib/finch, /usr/lib/gnt, /usr/lib/pidgin,
        /usr/lib/purple-2, /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;,
        /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin, /usr/share/purple and
        /usr/share/sounds/purple</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="pidgin-prog">
        <term><command>pidgin</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an instant messaging client based on the
          <application>Gtk+-2</application> GUI toolkit.</para>
          <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-pidgin">pidgin</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="finch">
        <term><command>finch</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a text-based (<application>Ncurses</application>) instant
          messaging client.</para>
          <indexterm zone="pidgin finch">
            <primary sortas="b-finch">finch</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>