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Greenstuff

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From: Israel

Registered: 2009-06-30

Posts: 64

[SOLVED] Pidgin and video

Hey,
I tried looking around for that but didn't find an exact answer: How do you enable video support in the new pidgin package from extra? I understand you need motify the pkgbuild but didn't understand how.

Last edited by Greenstuff (2009-10-04 13:20:51)

knedlyk

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From: L'viv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 163

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Re: [SOLVED] Pidgin and video

It is very simpe.

Create directory:
$mkdir pidgin
Change directory to created directory:
$cd pidgin
Get pidgin source:
$yaourt -G pidgin

Now open pidgin PKGBUILD with your favorite editor and remove string --disable-vv. Install farsight2 (not sure if it is needed) and start makepkg. You'll get pidgin package with enabled voice and video. Install it.
Good luck.

Last edited by knedlyk (2009-10-03 09:25:20)

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: [SOLVED] Pidgin and video

It is very simpe.

Create directory:
$mkdir pidgin
Change directory to created directory:
$cd pidgin
Get pidgin source:
$yaourt -G pidgin

Now open pidgin PKGBUILD with your favorite editor and remove string --disable-vv. Install farsight2 (not sure if it is needed) and start makepkg. You'll get pidgin packages with enabled voice and video. Install it.
Good luck.

You do need farsight2 installed. Corrected a typo in your mkdir. And yes, that would work. If you don't want to use yaourt you can always use abs as well, just:-

sudo abs
mkdir pidgin
cp -A /var/abs/extra/pidgin ./pidgin
cd pidgin

and continue as above.

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kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: [SOLVED] Pidgin and video

now by default video is enabled.