I recently installed Pidgin and tried to install pidgin-facebookchat. Ubuntu software center now says that pidgin is corrupt so I press repair but nothing gets fixed.
I've tried sudo apt-get purge pidgin but I get this error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information...
Pidgin is a nice chatting client that is pre-installed in a lot of Linux distributions. Pidgin supports many chat platforms like yahoo, facebook, irc, AIM ... but unfortunately, the popular social network Twitter is not on this list.
However, with the help of a plugin called pidgin-microblog, you can update and check twitter and some other social networks like Identi.ca, Status.net ..
流行的跨平台即时通讯软件 Pidgin 已更新到了 2.6.6
版本。该版本支持在朋友列表中按 Email
地址进行搜索、能够正确处理多行文本字段、以及修正了一大坨 Bug。除此之外,Pidgin
2.6.6 还对 libpurple 库及 Gadu-Gadu、AIM、MSN、MySpace、XMPP、Yahoo
等协议进行了修复。
abveritas wrote:Pidgin has some other plugins bundled-in already (OTR is one), either with the next pidgin update, or if I can find time, it'll be sooner, I'll add this plugin. If it works with the bundle ofc .Will be awesome , I also would like to test this
does any one have the skype plugin for pidgin? Ive tried to install it but it never shows up as a option to select on add acount with pidgin. Iam running centos 6.2 [by ashtonford]
code.google.com Pidgin Embedded Video is a GTK plugin for the popular instant messaging client Pidgin. The purpose of this plugin is to provide a faster way to watch videos while chatting with your friends. No more additional browser windows! It transforms a simple conversation into a much more attractive and interesting experience. Sharing links to [...]
every time i open Pidgin, it resets my nickname to my name as shown in Windows Live Mail, i tried changing the nick from the plugin, but as soon as i restart Pidgin, it will set my name again, this happens in the standard MSN and the MSN-Pecan plugin
I found this, http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-openste
wToInstall , but cant seem to get it to work. I have tried putting it in both the .purple/plugins directory and the pidgin directory with no luck. Has anybody been able to install this plugin?
Here I found a Pidgin plugin Pidgin Embedded Video that allows people to share videos/pictures and watch them while chatting with friends.Just links to videos and pics,and no more additional browser windows.Take a look at the picture from the source page: