How to install Gfire

Linux

• First, make sure you have Pidgin installed (Pidgin 2.5.0+ required). If not, you can download Pidgin from your Linux distro repos or from the  Pidgin website.
• Next, download Gfire for Linux. Currently the latest stable release is 0.9.4
  •  Source
  •  DEB (Debian)
  •  DEB 64bit (Debian 64bit)
  •  DEB (Ubuntu)
  •  DEB 64bit (Ubuntu 64bit)
  •  RPM (Fedora, RedHat)
  •  RPM 64bit (Fedora 64bit, RedHat 64bit)
  •  RPM (openSuSE)
  •  RPM 64bit (openSuSE 64bit)
  •  XZ (Arch Linux)
  •  XZ 64bit (Arch Linux x86_64)
• For Source, make sure you have the development files of glib, libpurple and GTK, if you wish support for it, installed, extract the file and run the following commands

  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make
  make install
  

  • If you have problems with compiling or Gfire doesn't seem to be installed, try using --prefix=/usr/local instead.
• For DEB, DEB 64bit, RPM & RPM 64bit, click on the file to begin the install process.

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Windows

• First, make sure you have Pidgin installed (Pidgin 2.5.0+ required). If not, you can download it from the  Pidgin website.
• Next, download Gfire for Windows. Currently the latest stable release is 0.9.4
  •  EXE (32bit XP, Vista, 7)
  •  ZIP (Windows Manual Installation/Portable? Version)
  • For the installer: Click on the installer and it will begin to install Gfire.
  • For the manual install/portable version: Just extract the files into Pidgins root directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\Pidgin).
  • If Pidgin is running you will need to restart it in order for the plugin to work.