Installation

From Pidgin Games

Contents 1 Requirements 2 Debian and Debian based distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) 3 Other GNU/Linux Distributions 4 Windows

[edit] Requirements

Version 2.5.x of Pidgin is currently needed to play Pidgin Games. You can get it from the Pidgin website or from your distros packet manager.

[edit] Debian and Debian based distributions (e.g. Ubuntu)

1. Find out whether you are on a 32 or 64 bit system
2. Download pidgin-games-0.6.0-gnu32.deb (32bit) or pidgin-games-0.6.0.deb (64bit)
3. Install downloaded .deb file
   • either by double clicking
   • or by typing dpkg -i filename.deb

Attention: filename has to be replaced with the actual filename of the file you downloaded

[edit] Other GNU/Linux Distributions

1. Find out whether you are on a 32 or 64 bit system
2. Download pidgin-games-0.6.0-gnu32.tar.bz2 (32bit) or pidgin-games-0.6.0.tar.bz2 (64bit)
3. Unpack downloaded .tar.bz2 file
   • either by using your favorite archiver
   • or by typing tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2
4. Create $HOME/.purple/plugins if it not already exists
   • mkdir $HOME/.purple/plugins
5. Copy/Move the contents of the extracted folder to $HOME/.purple/plugins
   • cp -r pidgin-games-0.6.0/* $HOME/.purple/plugins

Attention: filename has to be replaced with the actual filename of the file you downloaded.

[edit] Windows

1. Download pidgin-games-0.5.0-win32.zip
2. Double click it
3. Extract zipped folder including its content
4. Find your Pidgin install directory (usually C:\Program Files\Pidgin)
5. Copy the content of the extracted folder into the plugins folder of your Pidgin install directory