Compiling the countdown plugin for pidgin.

Given my current situation I will have my 3 most difficult exams on Thursday and Friday. So I decided to find a way to put it into my Pidgin status. At first I thought that updating it from time to time would be enough. But then I thought, "there must be something to automate it."

I asked the saint of the searches Saint Google and he answered me almost immediately (I damn my ISP).(Remember that this plugin is not the final one. But it works.)

https://launchpad.net/pidgin-countdown

I found this page and downloaded the file. Decompressed it and then used the ol' trusty Terminal.

cd ~/Documents/count/

Inside that directory there are 2 files.

ls
countdown.c Makefile


Now before compiling, check that you have this directory: ~/.purple/plugins/

If you don't(like me) do the following

mkdir ~/.purple/plugins/

Time to compile.Inside the directory where the Makefile is found.

Make -f Makefile

If you have some errors after this step install this:

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install pidgin-devel

Fedora:

su -c'yum install pidgin-devel'

Then try again the command to compile.

Now the only thing left is to go back to our beloved pidgin and go to tools and then to plug-ins.Check the countdown check-box and then go to "Configure Plug-in". Select the date that you want the countdown to show and then close those windows. Your personal message will display the time until your specified date.

Have fun!