Fun Pidgin

The latest release is available in DEB, RPM and EXE format, along with a source archive of course.

About the packages:

• The Debian package was built using dpkg on an i686 machine running Ubuntu 7.10. It should work on all x86 computers running Debian based operating systems. Minor adjustments may be required to make it conform to your distribution's standards. For example Ubuntu has separate packages for pidgin, finch, pidgin-data and libpurple0. You must uninstall all of these before installing Funpidgin.
• The Redhat package was built on Archlinux. For this reason it is optimized for i686. The package was made using the Checkinstall spy which simplifies the often tedious process of listing files and dependencies for an RPM. Again, you may have to uninstall a few existing packages or move a few files around on certain Redhat based systems.
• Fedora users will probably prefer the proper Fedora 8 packages recently contributed by William J Bacher. They provide the all the changes Funpidgin has made to the Pidgin codebase. The official packages for libpurple and finch can be used with these because libpurple and finch are still the same in Funpidgin as they are in Pidgin.
• The Windows installer was built using mingw and cygwin as per the official instructions. It should behave exactly like the Windows version of Pidgin.

Additional sources:

For Archlinux users, Funpidgin is available in the AUR. We strongly encourage users to contribute Funpidgin packages for inclusion in software repositories. If you have created a package, but need someone to host it, contact us and we will gladly add it to the list. If you wish to install Funpidgin on an operating system we haven't listed but don't know how, contact us and we will work towards making another package!