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Pidgin & Facebook: problemi su Ubuntu Karmic

Pidgin FacebookNon me ne vogliate, ma Empathy proprio non mi piace, anche perché non sono riuscito a far funzionare la chat di Facebook (che dovrebbe funzionare comunque, visto che alla fine è tutto in salsa Purple). E poi Empathy è proprio brutto. Non mi piace. Ecco.

Detto questo, da alcune settimane avevo notato difficoltà a fare il login su Facebook da Pidgin (versione 2.6.2 come da repository ufficiali Canonical per Ubuntu Karmic). La chat di Facebook, che su Pidgin si utilizza tramite il plugin pidgin-facebookchat, pur essendo accessibile dall’esterno e documentata, non rispetta uno standard consolidato come l’XMPP. Lo farà in futuro, ma per il momento è possibile, e anche probabile, che alcune modifiche al protocollo la rendano inutilizzabile dai software di terze parti.

E così è successo per Pidgin su Karmic. La soluzione è semplice: basta installare una versione aggiornata del plugin. Il deb, che va bene sia per Ubuntu che per Debian1, si trova alla pagina principale del progetto Pidgin Facebook Chat. Basta scaricarlo e installarlo (bastano un paio di click con il mouse, non pensiate di usare ancora il terminale!) per risolvere il problema.

Giacché siamo in vena di aggiornamenti, suggerisco anche di inserire nei propri repository il PPA ufficiale degli sviluppatori di Pidgin. Chi utilizza Karmic Koala (che personalmente consiglio vivamente) può aggiungere il nuovo repository inserendo dal programma Sorgenti Software (dal menu Sistema -> Amministrazione) la riga:

ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa

Istruzioni più complete e che funzionano anche sulle altre release di Ubuntu sono presentate in dettaglio nella pagina di Pidgin dedicata alla distribuzione africana. Una volta completato l’upgrade, la versione di Pidgin passerà dalla 2.6.2 (dei repository di Karmic) alla 2.6.3 che è invece la release più recente.

I più pigri possono installare sia Pidgin che il plugin per Facebook cliccando su questi due link (magie dell’APT):

  1. Non si ricorda mai abbastanza che Ubuntu senza Debian non avrebbe mai iniziato e non potrebbe continuare []
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New F-Spot 0.5.0 – Build for Ubuntu

F-Spot developers released a new version of their photo management software. Here you can read the release note. I made a package for Ubuntu Hardy and Ubuntu Intrepid. Both are available on my PPA on Launchpad. Note that there could be some issues with this build: please refer any problem you find. It is sufficient writing a comment on this blog.

Quick instructions for Hardy

If you are using Hardy, add the following repositories to your sources (you can either use Synaptic or edit your /etc/apt/sources.list):

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/michelinux/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/michelinux/ubuntu hardy main

On Hardy you will also need a more updated version of GTK-Sharp, which you will find in the same repository. So if you are using the standard apt way there are no problems, but if you prefer to download the single deb file remember to download the GTK-Sharp deb file as well.

Quick instructions for Intrepid

f you are using Intrepid, add the following repositories to your sources:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/michelinux/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/michelinux/ubuntu intrepid main

It is not necessary add the deb-src repository: add it only if you are planning to play with sources.

Know Issues

This package won’t compile on amd64. Still investigating. This is the build log, if you have any idea or suggestion please let me know (just leave a comment to this post). Also, if you have a 64bit machine (Intel or AMD it’s pretty much the same) youi could try to download the upstream source of F-Spot and trying to compile it on your Ubuntu box.

This has been solved with the new upstream version 0.5.0.1. Please upgrade your installation by running

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

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H264 YouTube video in Totem

This is just a two minutes hack to the original YouTube plugin for Totem 2.22, the Gnome Multimedia Player. It’s nothing more than a proof of concept: I hope in a very near future the original plugin could have a setting to allow users to choose the favourite video quality.

You can install it without damaging the original plugin. You also can have both enabled.

Plugins Dialog - Totem

You can download it as a gzipped package:

youtubeh264.tar.gz

You only need to extract it and copy it in your totem plugins directory (usually it’s /usr/lib/totem/plugins).

[Fixed] For Ubuntu Hardy users I also prepared a deb file, easier to install and uninstall, architecture indipendent:

totem-youtubeh264_0.0.1-2.deb

Some Screenshots following (click to enlarge).

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Deb Package for Flash Player 9.0.115

Adobe released Flash Player 9.0.115 for Linux. As I use Ubuntu and Adobe doesn’t provide a deb package, I converted the rpm one to deb using the alien command.

Here you can find the Flash Player 9.0.115 for Ubuntu and Debian.

Alternatively you can download a patched non-free package (in Ubuntu and Debian the non-free package does not contain the flash player, but automatically download it from Adobe). This second alternative is the most legal one.

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Gtkpod 0.99.12 backport for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

I backported the Gtkpod 0.99.12 for Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

Gtkpod 0.99.12 Ubuntu

These packages have support for aac (Advanced Audio Codec). I also compiled it with the video support, which was not originally included in the binary version in Ubuntu. That’s why you also must install the libmp4v2 and the Mpeg4ip packages.You can download the needed files from the following list:

Update: you will also need the libgpod3 package, which is not available in Gutsy. You can download it packaged by Mario Limonciello in his PPA repository. Thanks Brian for signalling this missing.

Here you have also the dev files (you’ll need them only if you are going to build any software which has dependencies on Gtkpod, Faad or Mpeg4ip):


Attention! Gtkpod 0.99.12 has still some issues
:

  • it will not automatically extract thumbnails from videos, but you can set them by hand;
  • on the iPod Touch and the iPhone photo uploading is not working: photo are actually uploaded and listed but the iPod Touch/iPhone will not be able to show them.

To install the files just download them and install using dpkg. Assuming you downloaded to your desktop, type the following inside a terminal:


cd ~/Desktop
sudo dpkg -i *deb