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Pidgin

Multi-protocol Instant Messaging client

Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, Zephyr, and MySpace IM.

Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

This package also includes Finch, a console-based (non-GUI) IM client with similar functionality.

How does this package differ from the Pidgin package that comes with Slackware 12.2?

More up-to-date version.
Includes Sametime and SILC protocol support, which requires the \'meanwhile\' and \'silc-toolkit\' packages, respectively, to function.
For Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support, can use either GnuTLS or the NSS/NSPR libraries included in Mozilla programs. The SSL-NNS plugin in this package was compiled to look for the NSS/NSPR libraries in /usr/lib/seamonkey, /usr/lib/firefox and /usr/lib/thunderbird as well as the regular /usr/lib.

Pidgin-OTR

Off-The-Record encryption for Pidgin

This is a plugin for Pidgin which implements Off-the-Record Messaging over any IM network Pidgin supports.

Requires: LibOTR (available here); Pidgin and its dependencies.

SILC-Toolkit

Secure Internet Live Conferencing libraries

SILC Toolkit providing SILC Protocol Core Library, SILC Client Library, runtime library and many other libraries. SILC Toolkit enables SILC application development. SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a secure conferencing protocol.

Pidgin

Multi-protocol Instant Messaging client

This package also includes Finch, a console-based (non-GUI) IM client with similar functionality.

How does this package differ from the Pidgin package that comes with Slackware 12.1?

More up-to-date version.
Includes in-line spellchecker, so it depends on GTKSpell and Enchant (both available from linuxpackages.net).
Includes Sametime and SILC protocol support, which requires the 'meanwhile' and 'silc-toolkit' packages, respectively, to function.
For Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support, can use either GnuTLS or the NSS/NSPR libraries included in Mozilla programs. The SSL-NNS plugin in this package was compiled to look for the NSS/NSPR libraries in /usr/lib/seamonkey, /usr/lib/firefox and /usr/lib/thunderbird as well as the regular /usr/lib.

Pidgin-OTR

Off-The-Record encryption for Pidgin

This is a plugin for Pidgin which implements Off-the-Record Messaging over any IM network Pidgin supports.

Requires: libotr (available here); Pidgin and its dependencies.

LibOTR

IM privacy library - Off-the-Record Messaging

Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:

Encryption
Authentication
Deniability
Perfect forward secrecy

Requires: libgcrypt, libgpg-error

SILC-Toolkit

Secure Internet Live Conferencing libraries

Pidgin

Multi-protocol Instant Messaging client

This package also includes Finch, a console-based (non-GUI) IM client with similar functionality.

Depencency Notes:

This Pidgin was compiled with GTKSpell support to provide spell-checking functionality, so it depends on GTKSpell (available from linuxpackages.net) and aspell (comes with Slackware 12.0).
The Sametime and SILC protocols require the 'meanwhile' and 'silc-toolkit' packages, respectively, to function.
In order to use MSN and Google Talk, Pidgin requires a compatible Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) library. This package was compiled with support for both GnuTLS and the NSS/NSPR libraries included in Mozilla programs. The SSL-NNS plugin in this package was compiled to look for the NSS/NSPR libraries in /usr/lib/seamonkey, /usr/lib/firefox and /usr/lib/thunderbird as well as the regular /usr/lib. This means that, if you have either GnuTLS (plus its dependencies libgcrypt and libgpg-error; all come with Slackware 12.0) or the official Slackware 12.0 package of any Mozilla application installed, it should 'just work'. (If both are installed, GnuTLS is used -- I think.)
To see the exact package dependencies, please click the 'View Contents' link or examine the install/slack-required and install/slack-suggests files within the package.

Pidgin-OTR

Off-The-Record encryption for Pidgin

This is a plugin for Pidgin which implements Off-the-Record Messaging over any IM network Pidgin supports.

Requires: libotr (available here); Pidgin and its dependencies.

LibOTR

IM privacy library - Off-the-Record Messaging

Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:

Encryption
Authentication
Deniability
Perfect forward secrecy

Requires: libgcrypt, libgpg-error

As with all my recent Slackware packages, a SlackBuild script is included that downloads the source, builds the binaries, and procreates (includes itself in the package it builds).