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.
Tags: Pidgin, Twitter, Fedora 8, RPM, Debian
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I took the time to download the source and compile it to run on Fedora 16 x86_64, with pidgin 2.10.3 installed from source too, using /usr/lib64. Default install for pidgin 2.10.3 from source would have it use /usr/lib instead. If you wish, I can send you the RPM package to host. I only had to make some changes to the SPEC file to give a version for Pidgin itself, and right now don’t know how to make it check the version of the source-installed Pidgin so it won’t give errors during installation that it’s not installed.