how to install purple plug in pack in pidgin 2.4.1

This is how to.
Purple Plugin Pack
1. Download the sources:
Code:
cd ~
mkdir pidgin
cd pidgin
wget http://downloads.guifications.org/plugins//Plugin%20Pack/purple-plugin_pack-2.1.1.tar.gz

2. Install required dependencies for Pidgin
Code:
sudo aptitude install gettext libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev libgtkspell-dev libgpg-error-dev libgcrypt11-dev
wget http://freshmeat.net/redir/talkfilters/37168/url_tgz/talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz

To install the talkfilters dependency -- the file we downloaded in the last step
Code:
tar zxvf talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
cd talkfilters-2.3.7
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

3. Compile and install the purple plugin pack
Code:
cd ~/pidgin
tar zxvf purple-plugin_pack-2.1.1.tar.gz
cd purple-plugin_pack-2.1.1

Compile the plugin pack:
Code:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make

Either
Code:
sudo make install or checkinstall

will install the package

Checkinstall allows the package to be installed through the apt user system. In some cases however checkinstall does have some limitations (ie static libraries). I used the simple sudo make install to install my package, however users insistent on not installing packages outside the apt tree may use checkinstall instead.

thanks Akira2_us
every thing went ok till step # 3
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mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ tar zxvf talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
tar: talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ cd talkfilters-2.3.7
bash: cd: talkfilters-2.3.7: No such file or directory
redir/talkfilters/37168/url_tgz/talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
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My bad, there is a newer version.
You'll have to do the steps all over but change in the first step

Code:
cd ~
mkdir pidgin
cd pidgin
wget http://downloads.guifications.org/plugins//Plugin%20Pack/purple-plugin_pack-2.1.1.tar.gz

                                TO
Code:
cd ~
mkdir pidgin
cd pidgin
wget http://downloads.guifications.org/plugins//Plugin%20Pack/purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0.tar.gz

the new code is ok but i get the same error the third step
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3. Compile and install the purple plugin pack
Code:
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cd ~/pidgin
tar zxvf purple-plugin_pack-2.1.1.tar.gz
cd purple-plugin_pack-2.1.1
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it gives:
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mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ tar zxvf talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
tar: talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ cd talkfilters-2.3.7
bash: cd: talkfilters-2.3.7: No such file or directory
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Thanks Akira2_us, that solved my question.

sorry the error is on the second part in step 2:
tar zxvf talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
cd talkfilters-2.3.7
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

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mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~$ Code:
bash: Code:: command not found
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~$ cd ~
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~$ mkdir pidgin
mkdir: cannot create directory `pidgin': File exists
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~$ cd pidgin
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ wget http://downloads.guifications.org/plugins//Plugin%20Pack/purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0.tar.gz
--21:25:18-- http://downloads.guifications.org/plugins//Plugin%20Pack/purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0.tar.gz
           => `purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0.tar.gz.2'
Resolving downloads.guifications.org... 208.100.2.214
Connecting to downloads.guifications.org|208.100.2.214|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 893,135 (872K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 893,135 48.37K/s ETA 00:00

21:25:39 (43.26 KB/s) - `purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0.tar.gz.2' saved [893135/893135]

mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ sudo aptitude install gettext libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev libgtkspell-dev libgpg-error-dev libgcrypt11-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ wget http://freshmeat.net/redir/talkfilters/37168/url_tgz/talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
--21:26:05-- http://freshmeat.net/redir/talkfilters/37168/url_tgz/talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
           => `talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz'
Resolving freshmeat.net... 216.34.181.101
Connecting to freshmeat.net|216.34.181.101|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://www.hyperrealm.com/talkfilters/talkfilters-2.3.8.tar.gz [following]
--21:26:06-- http://www.hyperrealm.com/talkfilters/talkfilters-2.3.8.tar.gz
           => `talkfilters-2.3.8.tar.gz'
Resolving www.hyperrealm.com... 66.96.130.23
Connecting to www.hyperrealm.com|66.96.130.23|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 821,338 (802K) [application/x-tar]

100%[====================================>] 821,338 42.53K/s ETA 00:00

21:26:29 (36.76 KB/s) - `talkfilters-2.3.8.tar.gz' saved [821338/821338]

mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ tar zxvf talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
tar: talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ cd talkfilters-2.3.7
bash: cd: talkfilters-2.3.7: No such file or directory
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$

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change "tar zxvf talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz" to "tar zxvf talkfilters-2.3.8.tar.gz"

thanks Gary,

after modifying the code by making every: "http://downloads.guifications.org/plugins//Plugin%20Pack/purple-plugin_pack-2.1.1.tar.gz" to nd
"http://downloads.guifications.org/plugins//Plugin%20Pack/purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0.tar.gz"

and every:
"tar zxvf talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz"
to
 "tar zxvf talkfilters-2.3.8.tar.gz"

however i got an every in the compile step (3)
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mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ cd purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin/purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether no accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of no... none
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether no accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 98304
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking libintl.h usability... yes
checking libintl.h presence... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for ngettext in libc... yes
checking for dgettext in libc... yes
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
checking for msgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for catalogs to be installed... en_AU es_ES fr
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for PURPLE... configure: error: Package requirements (purple) were not met:

No package 'purple' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PURPLE_CFLAGS
and PURPLE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin/purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin/purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0$ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
mahmoud@mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin/purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0$
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sorry for the typing mistake
i got an "error" in step 3

i got the same stuff... you have to install libpurple-bin and libpurple-dev (alongside with their dependencies).

However, i'm now stuck as configure can't recognize pidgin...

checking for PIDGIN... no

so i can't build the plugins for pidgin...

ok, I've just solved my problem, so for all of you who had the same problem, the solution is to install pidgin-dev and then the configure script can properly detect pidgin

Thanks worked for me.

had same problems as everyone above unstill

sudo apt-get install pidgin-dev

as per Marko's recomendation. ./configure found the path right away and i was easy able to make and sudo make install

Thanks

jast install
sudo aptitude build-dep pidgin

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