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1. GTK PIDGIN DOWNLOAD HOW TO
2. GTK PIDGIN DOWNLOAD INSTALL
3. GTK PIDGIN DOWNLOAD PORTABLE
4. GTK PIDGIN DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE

Note that the Pidgin package conflicts with Gaim, causing Gaim to be removed and ubuntu-desktop along with it (though according to this comment or this one there are ways to keep ubuntu-desktop). If you don’t want to wait for Gutsy, you can mess around with some unofficial packages from GetDeb or, you can compile it from source, or you can just use the old Gaim 1.5 package pre-installed on Ubuntu (all the tutorials below will probably work with 1.5, but the screens will be different and some things will be renamed). The reason is that the metapackage ubuntu-desktop in Feisty and early versions requires the package gaim. Ubuntu Feisty users don’t have an official package (only users of the upcoming Gutsy 7.10 do, available here). Debian offers an unstable version from their repository. At the time of this writing, the latest version of Pidgin (2.0.1) wasn’t available in many official repositories (though the older Gaim 1.5 is mostly available). Unfortunately, many GNU/Linux distributions don’t have it so easy. In addition, several GNU/Linux distributions such as Gentoo offer Pidgin in their official repositories (search for pidgin in your package manager). Pidgin offers repositories for Fedora Core, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (find them at the download page).

GTK PIDGIN DOWNLOAD INSTALL

If you don’t like Adium, you can install an old 1.5 build of Gaim via fink. Instead, the developers recommend Adium, an OS X fork. Macintosh users aren’t encouraged to download Pidgin at all. The solution is to uninstall both Pidgin and GIMP, install the latest GTK+ build from the official site, and then reinstall Pidgin and GIMP. Note: The GTK+ package bundled with Pidgin on Windows can sometimes cause problems with the GIMP image editor.

Just download it from the Windows download page and run the installer. It may also be a joke related to Gaim, since pigeons are game birds). In 2007, Sean Egan (the head of the project) announced that his team would rename their project “Pidgin” to avoid more legal disputes with AIM (the new name is a reference to the term “pidgin”, which describes communication between people who do not share a common language.

GTK PIDGIN DOWNLOAD PORTABLE

Haller created a portable “launcher” called Portable Gaim (later renamed to Gaim Portable), which allowed users to take Gaim on their USB drive. Adam Iser created a fork of Gaim known as Adium which allowed Macintosh users to use Gaim without X11.

GTK PIDGIN DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE

The well-known free software repository named it Project of the Month for November 1998. Then, it started to add more protocol support by reverse-engineering proprietary protocols (and adding open protocols such as IRC or XMPP). Originally, Pidgin started out as an AIM clone known as GAIM (an acronym for GTK+ AIM, later changed to simply “Gaim” to avoid naming disputes with AOL). To be more specific, it can connect to AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP (the core technology of Jabber), Yahoo!, and Zephyr. Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.

GTK PIDGIN DOWNLOAD HOW TO

History of Pidginīefore I get started explaining how to use Pidgin, I had better spend a little time to explaining what Pidgin actually is. Part 1 deals with the history of instant messenger clients and protocols. Note: This is part 2 of an instant messenger series. Luckily, the free software world has an alternative that enables users to chat with users of all of these programs (and many more). In addition, many of these are proprietary and Windows-only (two big minuses for GNU/Linux users). However, these all take up hard drive space, RAM, and CPU usage. Your boss may use Lotus Sametime, your colleague AIM, your friend Google Talk, and your kid Yahoo! Messenger. Today, everyone uses a different instant messenger.