To Compile ========== Untar the source tarball: tar zxvf guifications-VERSION.tar.gz Next run the configure script. If you have installed Pidgin and it's headers in the standard location, then configure should find the Pidgin source. If not, you need to set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the directory containing pidgin.pc before running configure. You should configure with the same prefix was used for Pidgin (for packages this would be /usr), eg: PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/usr As long as you haven't gotten any error messages during the configure script, you'll be read to compile. To compile just type 'make': make Guifications will install to the Pidgin lib directory and all of the configuration images into the Pidgin datadir. These directories are usually /usr/local/lib/pidgin and /usr/local/share/pixmaps/pidgin, so be sure you have write access to these directories, or use 'su' to become root and then run 'make install': make install Once thats done, you are good to go. Restart Pidgin, go into the plugins dialog. Enable Guifications, right out of the box it will work with all the default settings. There is always a large configuration for you to play with if you would like to.