Pidgin 2.6.1 Adds XMPP Voice and Video Support (but Not on Windows)

Long awaited in the list, voice support for pidgin for GNU/Linux is out, most of them were on Skype all these days for Voice and Video, not any more i feel, with this advancement it’s nice to hear and talk also.

Howto install from source:

For Ubuntu user, you may just setup from PPA :

To setup the PPA, copy-and-paste these commands into a terminal:

sudo apt-key adv —recv-keys —keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8 echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \ lsb_release --short --codename main | \

sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

To compile from source :

1. Get the source from : < a href=“http://biznetnetworks.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pidgin/Pidgin/2.6.1/pidgin-2.6.1.tar.bz2” target=“_blank”> Source

2. Extract and cd the directory pidgin-2.6.1.

3. sudo ./configure && make && sudo make install

Other packages that might be of your interest : pidgin-encryption pidgin-musictracker pidgin-extprefs pidgin-nateon pidgin-facebookchat pidgin-nateon-dbg pidgin-festival pidgin-otr pidgin-audacious pidgin-guifications
pidgin-plugin-pack pidgin-blinklight
pidgin-hotkeys pidgin-privacy-please pidgin-bot-sentry pidgin-lastfm
pidgin-screenshot pidgin-data
pidgin-libnotify pidgin-sipe pidgin-dbg pidgin-librvp
pidgin-themes pidgin-dev
pidgin-mpris

Screen Captured and attached.

If you failed to do so, follow the alternate method Install these : libgstfarsight0.10-0, libpurple0, libpurple-bin, pidgin-data, libpurple-bin, pidgin-data and pidgin