Tuesday, November 20, 2007

How to get language switch in pidgin

To get language switch in pidgin you need a plugin called switch-spell, which does not come in a RPM package (as far as I know). This means that you need to get the sources (here, in download) and compile it. To make the job easier here goes the necessary packages:

dbus-devel
dbus-glib-devel
libpurple-devel
aspell-devel
gtkspell-devel
pidgin-devel


And the yum command:

#---
yum -y install \
dbus-devel \
dbus-glib-devel \
libpurple-devel \
aspell-devel \
gtkspell-devel \
pidgin-devel
#---


After that just extract the sources and compile:

#---
./configure
make && make install
#---


Have fun!

P.S.: Just remember the previous post, if you get a "fails sanity check" error.

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