Saturday, June 20, 2009

How to display the media currently playing in Pidgin

All the things I am talking about here are only for Linux. I tested it in Ubutun 9.04 AMD64:
  1. Download Pidgin and install it (http://www.pidgin.im/download/). It normally comes with any default Ubuntu distribution.
  2. Download the MusicTracker plugin for Pidgin (http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-musictracker/downloads/list). Choose the source version since the binary one shouldn't work but on the machine that you use to build the source code. We need to compile the plugin on our own!
  3. in the terminal, unzip the plugin and under the unzipped folder you type in:
    • sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin-musictracker
    • ./configure --prefix=/usr/
    • make
    • make install
  4. wait a couple of seconds for Pidgin to refresh

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