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   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".