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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY pidgin-download-http "&sourceforge-dl;/pidgin/pidgin-&pidgin-version;.tar.bz2">
8 <!ENTITY pidgin-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY pidgin-md5sum "e135798bcf952ddb3c9e030c4b160c3e">
10 <!ENTITY pidgin-size "8.4 MB">
11 <!ENTITY pidgin-buildsize "277 MB (with tests and docs)">
12 <!ENTITY pidgin-time "0.7 SBU (using parallelism=4; with tests and docs)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="pidgin" xreflabel="Pidgin-&pidgin-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="pidgin.html"?>
17
18 <sect1info>
19 <date>$Date$</date>
20 </sect1info>
21
22 <title>Pidgin-&pidgin-version;</title>
23
24 <indexterm zone="pidgin">
25 <primary sortas="a-Pidgin">Pidgin</primary>
26 </indexterm>
27
28 <sect2 role="package">
29 <title>Introduction to Pidgin</title>
30
31 <para>
32 <application>Pidgin</application> is a Gtk+ 2 instant messaging client
33 that can connect with a wide range of networks including AIM, ICQ,
34 GroupWise, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Zephyr and Yahoo!
35 </para>
36
37 &lfs101_checked;
38
39 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
40 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
41 <listitem>
42 <para>
43 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&pidgin-download-http;"/>
44 </para>
45 </listitem>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>
48 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&pidgin-download-ftp;"/>
49 </para>
50 </listitem>
51 <listitem>
52 <para>
53 Download MD5 sum: &pidgin-md5sum;
54 </para>
55 </listitem>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>
58 Download size: &pidgin-size;
59 </para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>
63 Estimated disk space required: &pidgin-buildsize;
64 </para>
65 </listitem>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>
68 Estimated build time: &pidgin-time;
69 </para>
70 </listitem>
71 </itemizedlist>
72
73 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Pidgin Dependencies</bridgehead>
74
75 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
76 <para role="required">
77 <xref linkend="gtk2"/>
78 </para>
79
80 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
81 <para role="recommended">
82 <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>,
83 <xref linkend="gstreamer10"/> (required for audio support), and
84 <xref linkend="gnutls"/> or
85 <xref role="nodep" linkend="nss"/>
86 </para>
87
88 <para>
89 SSL support is required for the MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Novel Groupwise and
90 Google Talk protocol plugins. <application>GnuTLS</application> is the
91 preferred method (the Mozilla NSS API is more likely to change and this
92 can cause problems).
93 </para>
94
95 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
96 <para role="optional">
97 <xref linkend="avahi"/> (required for the Bonjour plugin),
98 <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
99 <xref linkend="dbus"/>,
100 <xref linkend="evolution-data-server"/>,
101 <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
102 <xref linkend="libidn"/> (required, if you wish to run the test suite),
103 <xref linkend="NetworkManager"/>,
104 <xref linkend="sqlite"/> (required for the Contact Availability Prediction
105 plugin),
106 <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
107 <!-- <xref linkend="tcl"/>, -->
108 <xref linkend="tk"/>,
109 <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Farstream">
110 Farstream (Version 0.1)</ulink>
111 (required for video and voice support),
112 <ulink url="http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/">Gtkspell</ulink>,
113 <ulink url="http://libgadu.net/">libgadu</ulink>,
114 <ulink url="http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/">Meanwhile</ulink>
115 (required for Sametime protocol support),
116 <ulink url="https://www.mono-project.com/">Mono</ulink>,
117 <ulink url="http://silcnet.org/client.html">SILC Client</ulink>,
118 <ulink url="http://silcnet.org/client.html">SILC Toolkit</ulink>,
119 <ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/stable/source/zephyr">Zephyr</ulink>, and
120 <xref linkend="mitkrb"/> (required for Kerberos support in the Zephyr
121 module)
122 </para>
123
124 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (runtime)</bridgehead>
125 <para role="optional">
126 <xref role="runtime" linkend="xdg-utils"/>
127 </para>
128
129 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
130 User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/pidgin"/>
131 </para>
132 </sect2>
133
134 <sect2 role="installation">
135 <title>Installation of Pidgin</title>
136
137 <para>
138 If you wish to run the test suite, make sure that <xref
139 linkend="libidn"/> is installed and remove the switch
140 <quote>--disable-idn</quote>. Compile <application>Pidgin</application>
141 by running the following commands:
142 </para>
143
144<!-- - -with-gstreamer=1.0 is removed and gstreamer support is disabled
145 because of a build problem when both this and - -disable-vv are present.
146 See https://hastebin.com/utiwijizad.rb for more details, and check again
147 at the next version (2.14.1 or 3.0 - whichever is next). -->
148
149<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
150 --sysconfdir=/etc \
151 --disable-gstreamer \
152 --disable-avahi \
153 --disable-gtkspell \
154 --disable-meanwhile \
155 --disable-idn \
156 --disable-nm \
157 --disable-vv &amp;&amp;
158make</userinput></screen>
159
160 <para>
161 If you have <xref linkend="doxygen"/> installed
162 (<xref linkend="graphviz"/> can be used also) and you wish to create the
163 API documentation, issue:
164 </para>
165
166<screen remap="doc"><userinput>make docs</userinput></screen>
167
168 <para>
169 Remember the remarks before <command>configure</command>. To test the
170 results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
171 </para>
172
173 <para>
174 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
175 </para>
176
177<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
178mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version; &amp;&amp;
179cp -v README doc/gtkrc-2.0 /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;</userinput></screen>
180
181 <para>
182 If you created the API documentation, install it using the following
183 commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
184 </para>
185
186<screen role="root"
187 remap="doc"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api &amp;&amp;
188cp -v doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api</userinput></screen>
189
190 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
191 href="../../xincludes/update-icons-and-desktop.xml"/>
192
193 </sect2>
194
195 <sect2 role="commands">
196 <title>Command Explanations</title>
197
198<!--
199 <para>
200 <parameter>- -with-gstreamer=1.0</parameter>: Remove this switch
201 and add <option>- -disable-gstreamer</option>
202 if you've not installed <xref linkend="gstreamer10"/>.
203 </para>
204-->
205 <para>
206 <parameter>--disable-gstreamer</parameter>: This switch disables gstreamer
207 support because there are problems with the build when Voice/Video support
208 is disabled, and gstreamer is enabled.
209 <!-- The problems exist within gst_device_monitor. See
210 https://hastebin.com/utiwijizad.rb for more details.
211 FIXME: Check this at the next release of pidgin, or if we ever add
212 Farstream. -->
213 </para>
214
215 <para>
216 <parameter>--disable-avahi</parameter>: Remove this switch if you've
217 installed <xref linkend="avahi"/>.
218 </para>
219
220 <para>
221 <parameter>--disable-gtkspell</parameter>: Remove this
222 switch if you've installed
223 <ulink url="http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/">Gtkspell</ulink> and wish
224 to enable spellchecking support.
225 </para>
226
227 <para>
228 <parameter>--disable-meanwhile</parameter>: Remove this switch if you've
229 installed <ulink url="http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/">Meanwhile</ulink>.
230 </para>
231
232 <para>
233 <parameter>--disable-idn</parameter>: Remove this switch if you've
234 installed <xref linkend="libidn"/>.
235 </para>
236
237 <para>
238 <parameter>--disable-nm</parameter>: Remove this switch if you've
239 installed <xref linkend="NetworkManager"/>.
240 </para>
241
242 <para>
243 <parameter>--disable-vv</parameter>: Remove this
244 switch if you've installed
245 <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Farstream">
246 Farstream (Version 0.1)</ulink> and wish to enable voice and video
247 communication support. You should also remove the --disable-gstreamer
248 flag.
249 </para>
250<!--
251 <para>
252 <parameter>- -disable-tcl</parameter>: Remove this switch if you've
253 installed <xref linkend="tcl"/>.
254 </para>
255i-->
256 <para>
257 <option>--enable-cyrus-sasl</option>: Use this switch if you've installed
258 <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/> and wish to build
259 <application>Pidgin</application> with SASL support.
260 </para>
261
262 <para>
263 <option>--disable-gnutls</option>: Use this switch if you've got both
264 <xref linkend="gnutls"/> and <xref linkend="nss"/> installed, but want
265 to use <xref linkend="nss"/> for the SSL support.
266 </para>
267
268 </sect2>
269
270 <sect2 role="configuration">
271 <title>Configuring Pidgin</title>
272
273 <sect3 id="pidgin-config">
274 <title>Config Files</title>
275 <para>
276 <filename>~/.purple/*</filename> and
277 <filename>~/.gtkrc-2.0</filename>
278 </para>
279
280 <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-config">
281 <primary sortas="e-AA.purple-*">~/.purple/*</primary>
282 </indexterm>
283
284 <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-config">
285 <primary sortas="e-AA.gtkrc-20">~/.gtkrc-2.0</primary>
286 </indexterm>
287 </sect3>
288
289 <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
290
291 <para>
292 Most configuration can be accomplished by using the various preference
293 settings inside the programs. Additionally, you can create a
294 <filename>~/.gtkrc-2.0</filename> file which can store gtk+-2 theme
295 settings that affect <application>Pidgin</application> and other Gtk+ 2
296 applications. Note that an example <filename>gtkrc-2.0</filename> file
297 was installed during the package installation and can be used as a
298 starting point or reference.
299 </para>
300
301 </sect3>
302
303 </sect2>
304
305 <sect2 role="content">
306 <title>Contents</title>
307
308 <segmentedlist>
309 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
310 <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
311 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
312
313 <seglistitem>
314 <seg>
315 <!--finch,--> pidgin, purple-client-example,
316 purple-remote, purple-send, purple-send-async, and
317 purple-url-handler
318 </seg>
319 <seg>
320 <!--libgnt.so,--> libpurple.so, and libpurple-client.so
321 </seg>
322 <seg>
323 <!--
324 /usr/include/finch,
325 /usr/include/gnt,
326 -->
327 /usr/include/libpurple,
328 /usr/include/pidgin,
329 <!--
330 /usr/lib/finch,
331 /usr/lib/gnt,
332 -->
333 /usr/lib/pidgin,
334 /usr/lib/purple-2,
335 /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;,
336 /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin,
337 /usr/share/purple, and
338 /usr/share/sounds/purple
339 </seg>
340 </seglistitem>
341 </segmentedlist>
342
343 <variablelist>
344 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
345 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
346 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
347
348 <!-- Seems to be removed with 2.14.0
349 <varlistentry id="finch">
350 <term><command>finch</command></term>
351 <listitem>
352 <para>
353 is a text-based instant messaging client.
354 </para>
355 <indexterm zone="pidgin finch">
356 <primary sortas="b-finch">finch</primary>
357 </indexterm>
358 </listitem>
359 </varlistentry>
360-->
361 <varlistentry id="pidgin-prog">
362 <term><command>pidgin</command></term>
363 <listitem>
364 <para>
365 is a <application>GTK+</application> 2 instant messaging client
366 </para>
367 <indexterm zone="pidgin pidgin-prog">
368 <primary sortas="b-pidgin">pidgin</primary>
369 </indexterm>
370 </listitem>
371 </varlistentry>
372
373 <varlistentry id="purple-client-example">
374 <term><command>purple-client-example</command></term>
375 <listitem>
376 <para>
377 is an example that demonstrate how to use libpurple-client
378 to communicate with purple
379 </para>
380 <indexterm zone="pidgin purple-client-example">
381 <primary sortas="b-purple-client-example">purple-client-example</primary>
382 </indexterm>
383 </listitem>
384 </varlistentry>
385
386 <varlistentry id="purple-remote">
387 <term><command>purple-remote</command></term>
388 <listitem>
389 <para>
390 sends remote commands to Pidgin/Finch
391 </para>
392 <indexterm zone="pidgin purple-remote">
393 <primary sortas="b-purple-remote">purple-remote</primary>
394 </indexterm>
395 </listitem>
396 </varlistentry>
397
398 <varlistentry id="purple-send">
399 <term><command>purple-send</command></term>
400 <listitem>
401 <para>
402 calls purple API functions using DBus and prints the return value
403 </para>
404 <indexterm zone="pidgin purple-send">
405 <primary sortas="b-purple-send">purple-send</primary>
406 </indexterm>
407 </listitem>
408 </varlistentry>
409
410 <varlistentry id="purple-send-async">
411 <term><command>purple-send-async</command></term>
412 <listitem>
413 <para>
414 calls purple API functions using DBus. As opposed to
415 <command>purple-send</command>, it does not print the return value
416 </para>
417 <indexterm zone="pidgin purple-send-async">
418 <primary sortas="b-purple-send-async">purple-send-async</primary>
419 </indexterm>
420 </listitem>
421 </varlistentry>
422
423 <varlistentry id="purple-url-handler">
424 <term><command>purple-url-handler</command></term>
425 <listitem>
426 <para>
427 is a python script to handle URLs with purple
428 </para>
429 <indexterm zone="pidgin purple-url-handler">
430 <primary sortas="b-purple-url-handler">purple-url-handler</primary>
431 </indexterm>
432 </listitem>
433 </varlistentry>
434
435 </variablelist>
436
437 </sect2>
438
439</sect1>
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