Free pidgin software for linux

SILC project is part of the official Pidgin distribution and by downloading Pidgin you will also get the SILC protocol support in it. If you download sources and compile them you will get the SILC support automatically.

If you download binary version of Pidgin, you will need to download a separate SILC Pidgin plugin package. In addition, you will also need to download and install the SILC Toolkit in order to get the SILC libraries. All the following packages are available courtesy of the Pidgin project.

The following binary packages include the SILC Pidgin plugin. You can install the SILC Pidgin plugin into your system and get SILC support in Pidgin automatically. Note that, you will also need to download and install the SILC Toolkit. Windows version includes the SILC libraries, and downloading SILC Toolkit is not necessary.

pidgin-festival is a plugin for Pidgin that interfaces with the popular program festival. It allows for instant messages to be spoken by festival so you can hear it through your speakers.

Installation:

Untar the archive:

tar zxvf pidgin-festival-VERSION.tar.gz

Run autogen

./autogen.sh

Configure:

./configure

or to install using a custom install of Pidgin:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/pidgin/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/opt/pidgin

As long as you havent gotten any error messages during the configure script, youll be read to compile. To compile just type make:

make

Pidgin-Festival will install to the pidgin lib directory. This directory is usually /usr/local/lib/pidgin, so be sure you have write access to these directories, or use su to become root and then run make install:

make install

Once thats done, you are good to go. Restart Pidgin, go into preferences, then to plugins. Enable Festival.

Knotify for Pidgin is a plugin for the Pidgin chat client that uses Knotify to do notifications. This is for those who like pidgin but dont like the lack of KDE integration.

Pidgin-CurrentTrack is a plugin for Pidgin (Formerly Gaim) that displays the current track gathered from iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, foobar2000, Musicmatch Jukebox, MediaMonkey, XMPlay , Yahoo! Jukebox, Amarok, Rhythmbox, XMMS, or from a file in your Available message or Away Message.

It will also append the current track to your user info, and can set your buddy icon based on the iTunes, MediaMonkey, or Amarok album art or query amazon.com for the album art. (Here is a great automatic album art importer.). You can type "/track" anywhere in a conversation and Currenttrack will replace it with the track title.

GDamafon project is an Open Source implementation of the Damafon protocol.

Its also a simple client for connecting to the HTTP chat system at www.damochka.ru, using GTK+ libraries.

The realization of a protocol plugin for Pidgin (ex Gaim) client is also in plan.

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