After Callum let me know that the Linux binary of the character counting plugin for Pidgin worked on Fedora 8, I decided to spin a RPM built on Fedora 8 proper. After a bit of reading and hackery, I have produced a x86 RPM for Fedora 8. Here’s the source, which includes the patch and the .spec file, as well as the RPM:
I’ve also spun a new Debian binary, as well:
And, if you’re looking for the Win32 binary, you can still get it off this page.
I’m glad so many of you out there who use Pidgin find this plugin useful. Thanks for all the positive feedback.








November 19th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
xy: If you tell me what distribution and version you're interested in, I can try building x86_64 binaries.
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