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Some new users say that the pidgin interface is not good. Indeed, pidgin does not work hard on the interface and focuses on functions. Therefore, you can consider using instantbird.
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Official Website: see http://www.instantbird.com/features.html
Instantbird Overview
Like other software under Mozilla, Instantbird is built on the Mozilla rendering engine and has cross-platform features. In addition, Instantbird uses the libpurple library, which enables it to have the same multi-protocol support capabilities as Pidgin, such as Google Talk, MSN, QQ, XMPP, AIM, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, Yahoo! .
(From http://linuxtoy.org/archives/instantbird.html)
Install instantbird
1. In 32-bit linux
If you download the .tar.bz2package at http://www.instantbird.com/in linux, click Export other Systems and versions. Find the package in linux and select an English version ), there is an instantbird script in the decompressed directory. Run it to open it.
2. In 64-bit linux
Step 1: Obtain the source code
The official website does not provide a 64-bit binary package, so you have to compile the package from the source code. First, you need to download the source code, that is, click Download the source code on http://www.instantbird.com/download-all.html.
Step 2: Solve the dependency
Most of the dependencies and compilation methods of instantbird are written to compile.
CODE: sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf2.13 python yasm libgtk2.0-dev libxml2-dev libidl-dev libxt-dev libcurl3-dev libasound2-dev libnotify-dev libiw-dev mesa-common-dev
Sudo apt-get install mercurial patch # you don't need those if you build from a source tarball
Sudo apt-get install ccache # this is only if you intend to use one of the provided custom config files |
