| 1 | libPurple core-answerscripts plugin |
| 2 | Framework for hooking scripts to received messages for various libpurple clients |
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| 4 | This simple plugin just passes every single message received by any libPurple-based client (pidgin,finch) to sript(s) in user's home directory... So you can add various hooks to your pidgin or finch without need of writing and compiling own C plugin or messing with buggy perl plugin and restarting client after each change in plugin. |
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| 6 | There are already few sample (answer)scripts in purple directory, so you can check how easy it is to write some script for pidgin or finch... |
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| 9 | The libpurple header files are needed to compile the plugin. |
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| 11 | Building & installation: |
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| 13 | To build and install : |
| 14 | You can compile the plugin using |
| 15 | $ make |
| 16 | and install it with |
| 17 | $ make install |
| 18 | This will install it in ~/.purple/plugins so that only the user who install it can use it. |
| 19 | $ make user |
| 20 | Install main script and sample answerscripts to ~/.purple/answerscripts.d/ |
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| 22 | To install it for everybody on your computer, |
| 23 | $ make |
| 24 | $ su |
| 25 | # make install PREFIX="/path/to/pidgin" (this command as root user) |
| 26 | generally /path/to/pidgin is /usr or /usr/local. If you don't know the path then you can find out using |
| 27 | $ whereis pidgin |
| 28 | and look for the part before "/lib/pidgin". |