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libpurple-2.14.14p1

multi-protocol instant messaging library

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Description

libpurple is intended to be the core of an IM program. When using libpurple, you'll basically be writing a UI for this core chunk of code. Pidgin is a GTK+ frontend to libpurple, Finch is an ncurses frontend, etc.

Package information

Ports path
net/pidgin,-libpurple
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
Categories
net, lang/python
Available flavors
audio, debug, gtkspell
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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