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Kalpik Nigam

Install Pidgin 2.0.0 on Ubuntu Feisty (with all plugins)

May 12th 2007 in Feisty, Pidgin, Pidgin Plugins, Ubuntu

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

  1. Album
  2. Auto Accept
  3. Auto-rejoin
  4. Auto Reply
  5. awaynotify
  6. Bash.org
  7. Buddy Icon Tools
  8. Buddy List Options
  9. Buddy Note
  10. buddytime
  11. chronic
  12. convcolors
  13. Dice
  14. DiffTopic
  15. Magic 8 Ball
  16. Flip
  17. gRIM
  18. Group Message
  19. Hide Conversation
  20. IRC Helper
  21. Irssi Features
  22. Last Seen
  23. List Handler
  24. Marker Line
  25. My Status Box
  26. napster
  27. New Line
  28. Nick Said
  29. Offline Message
  30. Old Logger
  31. Plonkers
  32. Schedule
  33. Separate and Tab
  34. Show Offline
  35. Sim Fix
  36. Slash Exec
  37. SSL Info
  38. Stocker
  39. Switch Spell
  40. Talk Filters
  41. XMMS Remote
  42. 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.


61 comments to...
“Install Pidgin 2.0.0 on Ubuntu Feisty (with all plugins)”
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Manas

Thanks for the .deb man !

Installed it and its working fine here. :)


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kalpik

Thanks for testing it out Manas! I hereby give you the Official Beta Tester Award :P


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Manas

Where is the badge ? :P


[...] Plugin pack from Kalpik’s [...]


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kalpik

Lol.. Couldn’t find any on google image search :P


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Tuxicity

Thanks for making the plugin package :-)

Tuxicity.


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kalpik

You are most welcome Tuxicity! Welcome to my blog :)


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Anji Capes

That is pretty cool. Cheers!


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karthiksn

This is the worst part i suppose when you install AMD64 Ubuntu


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kalpik

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!


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mehul

noobs…..learn to compile it’s fun :P


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kalpik

Actually Karthiksn DID compile it.. That’s how i got the 64 bit compiled deb :)


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macsim

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kalpik

Thanks max. You can also have the AMD64 debs from my site if you need them. :)


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macsim

It’s normal mate.

Why don’t you add the :
guifications – http://plugins.guifications.org/trac/wiki/Guifications
on the pack ?


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kalpik

I have provided deb files for the libnotify plugin, and libnotify is MUCH better than guitifications in my opinion :)


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macsim

Oki, hum I’ll try this one :)


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mehul

[quote]Actually Karthiksn DID compile it.. That’s how i got the 64 bit compiled deb [/quote]
*claps*


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jo

Missing the gaim-encryption plugin!


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karthiksn

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


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Ya! Manic Kill!

I tried installing it but it didn’t work. What did I do wrong? How could I do something wrong with a deb file???


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kalpik

What error did you get? How is it not working?


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Richard

I don’t see any link…where do I get the .deb for amd64?


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kalpik

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 :)


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arclight

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. :/


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FkJ

Richard, the widget requires flash 9


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kalpik

I have added rapidshare links for people having trouble with flash :)


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Mister Fish

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?


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kalpik

Yes! I does work with Pidgin v2.0.2. What dependency is it trying to install?


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BenZohl

Whzy not use http://www.getdeb.net/ to ditribute your .deb’s?


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mind

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.


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Khanh

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.


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Jesse Jarzynka

Another vote for gaim-encryption.


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kalpik

Thanks for visiting my blog guys.. Im just too busy these days.. Ill try and compile pidgin-encryption for you when i get time.


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openartist

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John

Jason Kottke (kottke.org) would like is favicon back.


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Shawn

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


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Shawn

Went to GetDeb and pulled up version 2.0.2 and the associated pidgin-data deb and now it seems to work properly.


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Dell Bios

Thanks a whole lot for this.


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tom

What about the SIPE plugin in debian testing? for Microsoft’s Live Communication Server?


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Nick Presta

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.


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John Bailey

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.


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kalpik

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 :)


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Corpse

great ! thanks :)


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Ray

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


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kalpik

Hi Ray!

I have no issues with that! Thanks for promoting my blog :)


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zach

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


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Idetrorce

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce


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kranny

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


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Thulatita

Your web page doesn’t correctly work in safari browser


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sandrar

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.




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