I was able to install pidgin-facebookchat 1.61 on Ubuntu Juanty Jackalope (9.04) by first installing the relevant libjson-glib-1.0-0 from Karmic. To find the correct deb look at the different builds on the right hand side of the page. In my case on 64-bit Ubuntu the relevant deb was this one, the 32-bit version is here.
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Ubuntu Jaunty and pidgin-facebookchat 1.61
Posted in Open Source, Techy Also tagged facebook chat, jaunty, karmic, libpurple, pidgin-facebookchat 2 Comments
Magic pidgins
Pidgin is my instant messaging client of choice. It means my MSN, Gtalk, Yahoo, ICQ and other contacts are all in one place. Today I have taken that to the next level with three new plugins.
Skype Pidgin Plugin
I need to have skype installed and running, but now I can send / receive messages from within [...]
Posted in Open Source, Techy Also tagged Facebook, facebook chat, off the record messaging, pidgin extra prefs, Skype, twitter 7 Comments
Pidgin character count plugin on Fedora
If you’re a pidgin and Twitter user like myself, it’s hard to keep your tweets under 140 characters. Dossy created a character count plugin for this very purpose.
To install on Fedora (and possibly others) simply grab the .deb file Dossy kindly published here. Open the .deb in archive manager. Open the contained data.tar.gz file. Then [...]
Posted in Techy Also tagged character count plugin, dossy, pidgin plugins, pidgin twitter plugin, twitter 3 Comments
