You can easily get the vanilla Pidgin 2.0 .deb (installation file for Ubuntu Feisty).
The only thing i was missing badly were the plugins! I was really used to the libnotify and autoreply plugins. Anyway, so i’ve compiled a .deb here for the Purple Plugin Pack.
Plugins in the Plugin Pack
- Album
- Auto Accept
- Auto-rejoin
- Auto Reply
- awaynotify
- Bash.org
- Buddy Icon Tools
- Buddy List Options
- Buddy Note
- buddytime
- chronic
- convcolors
- Dice
- DiffTopic
- Magic 8 Ball
- Flip
- gRIM
- Group Message
- Hide Conversation
- IRC Helper
- Irssi Features
- Last Seen
- List Handler
- Marker Line
- My Status Box
- napster
- New Line
- Nick Said
- Offline Message
- Old Logger
- Plonkers
- Schedule
- Separate and Tab
- Show Offline
- Sim Fix
- Slash Exec
- SSL Info
- Stocker
- Switch Spell
- Talk Filters
- XMMS Remote
- XChat-Chats
Edit: Thanks to Karthik, we have 64 bit debs for the plugin pack too!
Edit2: Some people are shamelessly copying this article and posting it on their blogs/sites. They were even hot linking to my .deb files. So now i am using box.net to distribute the deb files. Please do let me know if anyone faces issues with that 
Edit3: Rapidshare link for 32 bit and 64 bit plugin pack added.
Edit4: Pidgin updated to v2.0.2.
Edit5: Plugin Pack updated to v2.0.0 for i386 architecture.
Thanks for the .deb man !
Installed it and its working fine here.
Thanks for testing it out Manas! I hereby give you the Official Beta Tester Award
Where is the badge ?
Lol.. Couldn’t find any on google image search
Thanks for making the plugin package
Tuxicity.
You are most welcome Tuxicity! Welcome to my blog
That is pretty cool. Cheers!
This is the worst part i suppose when you install AMD64 Ubuntu
Naah, actually if you want, i can guide you on how to compile the plugins yourself! I released it for 32 bit cuz i run 32 bit!
noobs…..learn to compile it’s fun
Actually Karthiksn DID compile it.. That’s how i got the 64 bit compiled deb
I add a link to this article in my french translation:
http://macsim.labolinux.net/index.php/2007/05/25/95-comment-installer-pidgin-20-sur-feisty-avec-les-plugins
Sorry to didn’t see the your article was the source of : http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-pidgin-200-on-ubuntu-feisty-with-plugin-pack.html#comment-5047
Have fun.
max
Thanks max. You can also have the AMD64 debs from my site if you need them.
It’s normal mate.
Why don’t you add the :
guifications - http://plugins.guifications.org/trac/wiki/Guifications
on the pack ?
I have provided deb files for the libnotify plugin, and libnotify is MUCH better than guitifications in my opinion
Oki, hum I’ll try this one
[quote]Actually Karthiksn DID compile it.. That’s how i got the 64 bit compiled deb [/quote]
*claps*
Missing the gaim-encryption plugin!
Yeah dude mehul we are noobs guided by better people so not exactly that bad.
And a public thanks to Kalpik for helping with Pidgin
I tried installing it but it didn’t work. What did I do wrong? How could I do something wrong with a deb file???
What error did you get? How is it not working?
I don’t see any link…where do I get the .deb for amd64?
Richard, dont you see a “Box.net” widget here? Its based on flash. If you have some problems seeing it, let me know, ill upload it elsewhere for you
Sadly, box.net is not helping - there’s still no Flash plugin for AMD64/linux and I don’t need Flash so badly that I’m willing to jump through hoops to run a 32-bit browser. :/
Richard, the widget requires flash 9
I have added rapidshare links for people having trouble with flash
I tried to install this but it gave me a dependancy error. I’m using the latest version of Pidgin. Does this deb work with it?
Yes! I does work with Pidgin v2.0.2. What dependency is it trying to install?
Whzy not use http://www.getdeb.net/ to ditribute your .deb’s?
You’re missing the gaim-encryption plugin, which I might add, is _extremely_ easy to use. There is no reason (besides excuses) for you not to install it (get your close friends to, as well).
Also, the gaim developers should have just renamed it to ‘game’, or moved development offshore. The new names, colors, and icons are horrible, even more so when you realize the change was only because of bullying.
Hi,
Did you compile and package Group Message plugin successfully? I cannot see it in my plugin list.
I know this plugin is annoying, but I only use it to share something interesting with my friends.
Another vote for gaim-encryption.
Thanks for visiting my blog guys.. Im just too busy these days.. Ill try and compile pidgin-encryption for you when i get time.
You can find a nice replacement icon here:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Pidgin+icons+-+released?content=62169
Jason Kottke (kottke.org) would like is favicon back.
Here is what happened when I tried to install the 64 bit deb on my Feisty box
$ sudo dpkg -i pidgin_2.0.1-1~getdeb1_amd64.deb
Password:
(Reading database … 184056 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking pidgin (from pidgin_2.0.1-1~getdeb1_amd64.deb) …
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
dpkg: error processing pidgin_2.0.1-1~getdeb1_amd64.deb (–install):
short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo’)
Errors were encountered while processing:
pidgin_2.0.1-1~getdeb1_amd64.deb
Went to GetDeb and pulled up version 2.0.2 and the associated pidgin-data deb and now it seems to work properly.
Thanks a whole lot for this.
What about the SIPE plugin in debian testing? for Microsoft’s Live Communication Server?
Thanks for the deb.
When installing, I noticed that there were a couple dependency issues:
libavahi-compat-howl0 libsilc-1.0-2
Of course, apt-get -f install solved the problem but I thought I should give a heads up.
I see in the comments here that people have been misinterpreting what this package actually is. This is not a collection of “all Pidgin plugins,” as the blog post misleads people into thinking. This is a package for the Purple Plugin Pack available at http://plugins.guifications.org/ and maintained by myself and a few other developers.
This package is also out of date, as we have released the Purple Plugin Pack’s version 2.0.0, which includes a number of crash fixes as well as new plugins. We strongly encourage anyone using our plugins with Pidgin or Finch to update to our 2.0.0 release.
John, im honored to have you visiting my blog! Thanks for the heads up on the new Purple Plugin Pack! Ill cook up a deb for it as soon as i get some time to spare. Life’s hectic these days
great ! thanks
Hi, Kalpik
I am from China. And I translated this article and posted it on my blog. Hopefully you don’t mind.
In my translation I announced the original writer and a link to here.
If you have any problem with it just drop me a email, I will take it away.
Thanks!
The page is here: http://www.lirui.name/post/64.html
Hi Ray!
I have no issues with that! Thanks for promoting my blog
umm im new with ubuntu
how do i use it once its installed
i cant launch it and when i check the package manager its under the installed local or obsolete section and it wont lemme activate it
please tell me what im doing wrong
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
i couldn’t find musictracker in the list…any suggestions where to look for it?
Actually ive compiled pidgin and musictracker from the source..pidgin works fine but musictracker not working