You can switch back to the Terminal application and enter the following commands. In this dialog box, you should see the build directory, double click on it and then press the “Extract” button in the bottom-right corner.
Once it is open, just click “Extract” in the Archive manager.
Make sure that you select “Open with” and that the application is “Archive manager”, then press “OK”.ĭepending on your download speed, you might wait several minutes before the download finished and Firefox launches the Archive manager. Firefox should display you a dialog box like the one displayed on the right. Click on the available download link and wait a few seconds. Go to the Pidgin web page where you can download the source code. A new directory appears and you can change its name: choose build. In the “File” menu of Nautilus, choose “Create folder”. Nautilus (your file manager) will display the list of files and directories in your home folder. Under the “Places” main menu select “Home Folder”.
It is a temporary one, which we will call build as we will use it to build Pidgin.
If you do not know how to search for a package and install it in Synaptic, there is a small guide about Synaptic in the Ubuntu documentation. It is only necessary if you want to use the Bonjour protocol with Pidgin.
A password will be requested, enter the password you are using to login. The first command, sudo, is used to gain administrative privileges. Once open, just type in: sudo apt-get build-dep gaim Open a Terminal: you will find this application under the “Applications” main menu -> “Accessories” -> “Terminal”. Therefore, we will be using the list of dependencies that the Ubuntu developers used for Gaim. So the release shipped with Ubuntu and the current release are almost equal. Just after Ubuntu was available, the Gaim project was renamed Pidgin and was released. For the record, Ubuntu 7.04 is shipped with Gaim 2.0.0beta6. The first thing to do is to install the development libraries required to compile Pidgin. This guide has been validated on both the 32bit and 64bit versions of Ubuntu. No worries, though, as I will try to make it easy! A second little chapter will explain how to activate Avahi. However, you will have to use the command line. The installation will describes how to install Pidgin with support for Bonjour and Avahi on Ubuntu 7.04, and I will try to keep it the easiest possible. That was just the excuse I needed to take some times getting Pidgin and installing it. However, the installed Gaim on Ubuntu 7.04 cannot create a Bonjour account. Avahi is another implementation of Zeroconf and is readily installed on Ubuntu by default, though not activated. Bonjour is an implementation of Zeroconf made by Apple and release as open source. Thus, I wanted another challenge and I was remembering that Gaim (now Pidgin) should support the Bonjour protocol.
But that was too easy, basically once Avahi was configured, I had nothing else to do, it just worked…
The first obvious choice was using Rhythmbox to share music within the two computers.
Recently, I have been configuring Avahi on my laptop and desktop computers and I wanted to evaluate its possibilities.