Pidgin

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[Pidgin] is an open-source instant messaging client. It supports aim, yahoo, msn, and just about every protocol in existence. It was formerly known as gaim, but had to change it's name for legal reasons.

[Pidgin] is also a term for a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common, in situations such as trade.

Installing from yum

From Installing to SD Card. If you try this, please update this page with whether or not it works.

This *almost* works out of the box, save for one missing dependency in the yum repository.

If you first install the RPM from here:

ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/development/i386/os/Fedora/NetworkManager-glib-0.6.5-2.fc7.i386.rpm

You can then easily do a YUM install of pidgin.

Building from source