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- Purple, Pidgin and Finch
- ========================
- See AUTHORS and COPYRIGHT for the list of contributors.
-
- libpurple is a library intended to be used by programmers seeking
- to write an IM client that connects to many IM networks. It supports
- AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo!, among others.
-
- Pidgin is an graphical IM client written in C which uses the GTK+
- toolkit.
-
- Finch is a text-based IM client written in C which uses the ncurses
- toolkit.
-
- These programs are not endorsed by, nor affiliated with, AOL nor any
- other company in any way.
-
- BUILD
- =====
-
- Read the 'INSTALL' file for more detailed directions.
-
- These programs use the standard ./configure ; make. You need to use
- gmake, BSD make probably won't work. Remember, run ./configure --help
- to see what build options are available.
-
- In order to compile Pidgin you need to have GTK+ 2.0 installed (as
- well as the development files!). The configure script will fail if you
- don't. If you don't have GTK+ 2.0 installed, you should install it
- using your distribution's package management tools.
-
- For sound support, you also need gstreamer 0.10 or higher. For
- spellchecking support, you need libgtkspell (http://gtkspell.sf.net/).
- Your distro of choice probably already includes these, just be sure to
- install the development packages.
-
- RUN
- ===
-
- You should run 'make install' as root to make sure plugins and other files
- get installed into locations they want to be in. Once you've done that,
- you only need to run 'pidgin' or 'finch'.
-
- To get started, simply add a new account.
-
- If you come across a bug, please report it at: http://pidgin.im
-
- PLUGINS
- =======
-
- If you do not wish to enable the plugin support within Purple, run the
- ./configure script with the --disable-plugins option and recompile your
- source code. This will prevent the ability to load plugins.
-
- 'make install' puts the plugins in $PREFIX/lib/purple (PREFIX being what
- you specified when you ./configure'd - it defaults to /usr/local). Purple
- looks for the plugins in that directory by default. Plugins can be installed
- per-user in ~/.purple/plugins as well. Pidgin and Finch also look in
- $PREFIX/lib/pidgin and $PREFIX/lib/finch for UI-specific, respectively.
-
- To build a plugin from a .c file, put it in the plugins/ directory in
- the source and run 'make filename.so', e.g. if you have the .c file
- 'kickass.c', put it in the plugins/ directory, and from that directory,
- run 'make kickass.so'.
-
-