[HOW-TO] Pidgin-Rhythmbox 2.0 plug-in

[borisattva]

Naw. Didn't work for me.
I have Gutsy, pidgin-dev, I installed build-essential as well.
neither ./configure, nor make or make install are giving any Errors. I checked the Plugin in Pidgin and added %rb to Away-Message. I even restarted Pidgin and Rythmbox. I switched through some Songs, but nothing.
Nice Guide. But didn't do it for me. :/

i experienced something like this when i did the install not realizing either rb or pidgin was minimized but running. id give it another go making sure both are off completely.

[minhaaj]

same for me. %rb just won't work. no erros during ./configure sudo make and make install. i restarted everything. checked the plugin checkbox in plugins. ain't working. thanks for the guide though. i learned how to compile from source now

[lsp@gl]

Hallo,

I have the same problems like many other.

./configure

show no errors but

sudo make
Making all in src
make[1]: Betrete Verzeichnis '/home/thomas/Desktop/pidgin-rhythmbox-2.0/src'
/bin/bash ../libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -g3 -O2 -Wall -DVERSION=\"2.0\" -g -O2   -o pidgin-rhythmbox.la -rpath /usr/lib/pidgin -module -avoid-version -L/usr/lib/pidgin -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lpurple -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0   -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0   -ldbus-1   -ldbus-glib-1 -ldbus-1 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0   pidgin_rhythmbox_la-pidgin-rhythmbox.lo  
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpurple
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [pidgin-rhythmbox.la] Fehler 1
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/thomas/Desktop/pidgin-rhythmbox-2.0/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1

cannot find -lpurple.
Where is the problem and what can I do?

thx

[CharonM72]

Just for everyone's information, I too had the problem of %rb not changing to the song name and info, but when I asked a friend, he said that he could see it in ym status even though I couldn't (yes I had the checkboxes checked to show the info in my status bar)

It's still a problem, but not as much of one.

[cnbs]

Yes, you are right. It works but you can't see your status changed. To check try to add yourself to your contact list.

[Master_Odin]

Nevermind, great tutorial!

[Meijuh]

Hi there,

I would like to see the title of the radio stream I'm listening to.

What do I have to change in the line: '%tile' by %artist ?

Or isn't this possible?

[xHero]

I get the following error:

checking for pidgin... configure: error: Package requirements (pidgin >= 2.0.0) were not met:

No package 'pidgin' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables pidgin_CFLAGS
and pidgin_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I'm using the pidgin that comes with 8.10.

[prateek51]

I get the following error:

checking for pidgin... configure: error: Package requirements (pidgin >= 2.0.0) were not met:

No package 'pidgin' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables pidgin_CFLAGS
and pidgin_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I'm using the pidgin that comes with 8.10.

You need to install pidgin-dev

sudo apt-get install pidgin-dev

[josaphat]

This is more about Rhythmbox than about the pidgin plugin, but in my status I get '[song name](http://jon.oberheide.org/projects/pi...%ABOUT%MY%SONG' by Artist

I disabled the Lyrics plugin in Rhythmbox already. Should I rebuild the plugin because this was one of the settings?
Thanks for the help.


**EDIT**
Just figured out what the "problem" was. It's a link that's created in the AIM Profile, but it doesn't hide the URL when looking in the buddy list.