Pidgin

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About

Pidgin (previously Gaim) is an instant messaging and collaboration application. Pidgin supports a variety of protocols, including those for AIM (AOL), Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise Messenger, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, SILC, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, and Zephyr networks.

Installing

the last stable Pidgin version is 2.2.2 and it's avaible from that Build Service repositories:

Version:
10.3
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anubisg1/openSUSE_10.3
Version:
10.2
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anubisg1/openSUSE_10.2
Version:
SLE 10
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anubisg1/SLE_10


Older version are available from a this Build Service repository.

Follow these steps to install Pidgin from gnome community.

rpm --import http://software.opensuse.org/openSUSE-Build-Service.asc 
zypper sa -r http://software.opensuse.org/download/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_10.2/GNOME:Community.repo
zypper install pidgin pidgin-plugins-pack pidgin-otr pidgin-guifications

Visit the Build Service User page for more information on Build Service usage.

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