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pidgin mit Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, dnf, MacPorts, zypper, scoop, winget installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für pidgin in AI-Agent-Workflows.

Installationsbefehl Sicherheitshinweise

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install pidgin

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install pidgin

MacPorts ports tree · net/pidgin/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%

sudo apk add pidgin

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · pidgin · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install pidgin

Debian stable package indexes · pidgin · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install pidgin

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · pidgin · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%

sudo zypper install pidgin

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · pidgin · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Chocolateyverifiziert · 92%

choco install pidgin

Chocolatey community package catalog · pidgin · Quelle: community.chocolatey.org

Scoopverifiziert · 92%

scoop install extras/pidgin

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/pidgin.json · Quelle: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverifiziert · 92%

winget install --id Pidgin.Pidgin -e

Windows Package Manager source index · Pidgin.Pidgin · Quelle: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Multi-protocol chat client

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

finch
pidgin

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Pidgin is an open-source, multi-protocol chat client for Windows and Unix-like systems. It combines a GTK graphical interface with libpurple and is distributed alongside the Finch terminal client.

Projektgeschichte

Mark Spencer created the project in November 1998 as GAIM, initially a GTK client for AOL Instant Messenger's TOC protocol.

Following a legal settlement concerning its AIM-related name, the project renamed GAIM to Pidgin, libgaim to libpurple, and gaim-text to Finch. Pidgin 2.0.0 formalized those identities and completed the core/UI split in May 2007.

The project moved its primary source repository to the Instant Messaging Freedom infrastructure in 2020 while shifting new-feature development toward Pidgin 3 and retaining the 2.x line for maintenance.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Pidgin gained relevance when users commonly maintained accounts on several incompatible chat networks. Its multi-protocol design and plugin system let one client cover XMPP, IRC, and numerous contemporary messaging services.

The separation of libpurple from its user interfaces extended the project's reach: Pidgin supplied the GTK interface, Finch supplied a terminal interface, and third-party applications such as Adium reused libpurple's protocol support.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users configure multiple chat-network accounts in one client, join conversations such as XMPP chats and IRC channels, transfer files, and extend functionality through plugins. Account details and optionally stored passwords reside in `accounts.xml` under the `.purple` configuration directory.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Pidgin is notable to package maintainers as a long-lived desktop application that also delivers the reusable libpurple core and the Finch terminal client. Its history captures the packaging challenges of protocol plugins, GUI dependencies, account-data migration, and maintaining compatibility with changing proprietary chat services.

Zeitleiste

1998-11: Mark Spencer created the project as GAIM.
2007-04: The project announced the Pidgin, libpurple, and Finch names.
2007-05-03: Pidgin 2.0.0 completed the public rename and core/UI split.
2020: The primary repository moved to keep.imfreedom.org.

Related projects

libpurple is Pidgin's reusable protocol and account-management core.
Finch is the ncurses-based terminal interface built on libpurple.
Adium is a native macOS messaging client that uses libpurple for much of its protocol support.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risikoklassifikator

blue Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · tool

Warum

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signale

text:client

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 7 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 16 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
Build-Metadaten listen 3 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ${HOME}/.purple
Windows: %APPDATA%\.purple

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: ${HOME}/.purple/accounts.xml
Windows: %APPDATA%\.purple\accounts.xml

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`finch`	cli	globales Executable
`pidgin`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-11-04

Manager-Version2.14.14

Manager aktualisiert2026-09-22

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://pidgin.im/

InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://pidgin.im/none Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:pidgin
Version	2.14.14
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/pidgin
Homepage	https://pidgin.im/
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://pidgin.im/
Lizenz	GPL-2.0-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pidgin/Pidgin/2.14.14/pidgin-2.14.14.tar.bz2
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-09-22T15:09:55-04:00
Pulse	updated
Abhängigkeiten	at-spi2-core, cairo, gdk-pixbuf, gettext, glib, gnutls, gtk+, harfbuzz, libgcrypt, libgnt, libgpg-error, libidn, libotr, ncurses, pango, tcl-tk@8
Build-Abhängigkeiten	gettext, intltool, pkgconf
Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken	cyrus-sasl, expat, libxml2, perl
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_golden_gate, arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	pidgin
Version Scheme	0
Revision	3
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	yes
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

finch 2.14.14-1

text-based multi-protocol instant messaging client