How to install Adium theme for Pidgin?

I searched Google and realized that they only made tutorial (install Adium theme for Pidgin) in Ubuntu 9.10 or 10.4. I try their tutorial in my Maverick but unsuccessful.

I see that in menu Tool>Plugin of Pidgin I cannot find item WebKit Message Styles to check/uncheck.

Anyone has succeeded in installing Adium theme for Pidgin in Maverick, tell me the way to do. Thanks in advance.

3 Answers

Officially Pidgin does not support adium themes, and to my knowledge, the plugin has not been updated (or available) for a rather long time. I'd like to be proven wrong, but I don't think you will be able to use this feature.

I found a script that works fine in Ubuntu Natty, Oneiric and Precise may be works with Maverick:

#!/bin/bash HOMEUSER=$(echo ~ | awk -F'/' '{ print $1 $2 $3 }' | sed 's/home//g') SCRIPTSDIR="/home/$HOMEUSER/.scripts" sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webkit-team/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install -y --force-yes pidgin libnotify-bin pidgin-dev libpurple-dev libwebkit-dev bzr checkinstall bzr branch lp:~pdffs/pidgin-webkit/karmic-fixes cd ./karmic-fixes/ make sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=yes --pkgname=pidgin-adium --pkgversion "0.1" --default cd .. sudo rm -r ./karmic-fixes/ mkdir -p /home/$HOMEUSER/.scripts/ sleep 2; cd $SCRIPTSDIR/ sleep 2; wget chmod +x $SCRIPTSDIR/pidgin_adium.sh; gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/command "$SCRIPTSDIR/pidgin-adium.sh %s" gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/enabled true gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/needs_terminal false sudo chown $HOMEUSER -R /home/$HOMEUSER/.purple/ cd /home/$HOMEUSER/.purple/message_styles wget unzip /home/$HOMEUSER/.purple/message_styles/2160 sudo rm /home/$HOMEUSER/.purple/message_styles/2160 

Open gedit, copy the code and save the file in your home folder. Set it as executable: Right click on file > permissions > check Allow executing file as program Then double click on the file, execute in a terminal, write your password and the script will install the dependencies and the WebKit messages styles plugin for pidgin.

THIS WORKS EVEN IN QUANTAL (UBUNTU 12.10) 32 & 64 BIT!!!

Never mind the name "karmic-fixes", just create a a new file in your home folder, copy and paste the text below, save the file, make it executable, and run it in terminal.

It will install pidgin, if not installed already, and then all the necessary files etc. to start using pidgin with a rich set of adium styles which can selected from the menu:

Tools > Plugins > WebKit message styles > Configure plugin... and then select from a list of adium styles.

Note: I've written the script below simply by blending edocastillo's script above and h!v's script here: .

#!/bin/bash sudo apt-get install -y --force-yes pidgin libnotify-bin pidgin-dev libpurple-dev libwebkit-dev bzr wget checkinstall mkdir $HOME/.bin cd "$HOME/.bin/" wget --no-verbose -O adium-pidgin "" chmod +x adium-pidgin cd "$HOME" TMPDIR=`mktemp -d` cd $TMPDIR bzr branch lp:~pdffs/pidgin-webkit/karmic-fixes cd karmic-fixes make mkdir -p "$HOME/.purple/plugins" cp webkit.so "$HOME/.purple/plugins/webkit.so" rm -rf $TMPDIR gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/command "$HOME/.bin/adium-pidgin %s" gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/enabled true gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/adiumxtra/needs_terminal false mkdir -p "$HOME/.purple/message_styles" cd $HOME/.purple/message_styles wget unzip $HOME/.purple/message_styles/2160 rm -f $HOME/.purple/message_styles/2160 exit 0 

UPDATE: If the bzr branch is no longer valid, you can alternatively download the folder "karmic-fixes" from here: