Installing Pidgin's Embedded Pictures and Video Plugin

Thursday, 24 January 2013, 2:00 pm

You'll need the following dependencies:

sudo apt-get install pidgin-dev libpurple-dev libglib2.0-dev libwebkit-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Then get the plugin source code and extract it:

wget http://geekr.googlecode.com/files/pidgin-embeddedvideo-imageview.tar.gz tar -xvf pidgin-embeddedvideo-imageview.tar.gz

Finally compile it:

cd pidgin-embeddedvideo-imageview/ ./configure --prefix=/usr make sudo make install

Now enable the "Pidgin Embedded Video" plugin in Pidgin, from the Tools > Plugins menu.

There is a PKGBUILD for Arch Linux in the AUR - it's not been updated for a while, but works fine at the time of writing.

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