4 pidgin-sipe is a third-party plugin for the Pidgin multi-protocol instant
5 messenger. It implements the extended version of SIP/SIMPLE used by various
8 * Microsoft Lync Server 2010
9 * Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS 2007/2007 R2)
10 * Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS 2003/2005)
13 With this plugin you should be able to replace your Microsoft Office
14 Communicator client with Pidgin.
20 The plugin has support for
22 * Instant Messaging (IM)
25 * Calendar integration with Exchange 2007/2010
26 * Contact details information - company, phones, web site, etc.
27 * Contact search - [MS-PRES] and [MS-DLX] methods supported
28 * Encrypted file transfer
29 * Call initiation through PBX
30 * NTLMv2, Kerberos & TLS-DSK authentication support
31 * TLS encryption support
32 * Translated to many languages
35 Advantages over Office Communicator products
36 ============================================
38 * Available on broader range of platforms: Linux, *BSD, Maemo, OSX,
39 commercial UNIX, Windows.
40 * Ability to simultaneously connect to several Office Communicator
41 accounts in addition to public IM network accounts like MSN, AOL,
42 Yahoo. For example one account is in vendor company and another is
44 * Keeps history of communications in environments without Outlook. For
45 example in companies where Lotus Notes is deployed as a default
46 groupware client instead of Outlook.
47 * Lotus Notes/Domino calendar integration. Unique to SIPE.
48 * Open development model, open source product. License is GPLv2+
54 The Pidgin project does not support third-party plugins! If you have problems
55 with this plugin then please check out the support forums:
57 http://sf.net/projects/sipe/forums/
59 Bugs should be reported here:
61 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=949931&group_id=194563
67 SIPE has already been localized for several languages. You can help to
68 translate SIPE to your native language at Transifex:
70 https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/pidgin-sipe/r/mob/
72 The service offers a convenient web editor and automatic submission to the
76 Installing from a distribution repository
77 =========================================
79 Many Open Source OS distributions have a ready-made package "pidgin-sipe".
80 Before trying to compile it from the source code yourself, you should try
81 to install this package with the standard installation method provided by
85 Do It Yourself I: compiling against "pidgin" package
86 ====================================================
88 If you already have installed the "pidgin" package from your distribution
89 repository and want compile pidgin-sipe from source code yourself, then you
90 need to install the necessary headers first. Depending on your distribution
91 you'll need to install one of the following packages
96 For the compilation you'll need to install a C compiler and some of the
110 Now you should be able to compile the source code with
112 ./configure --prefix=/usr
115 If you get errors then you are missing some required package. After
116 successful compilation you can install pidgin-sipe with:
120 If you get errors from configure or libtool about version conflicts then
121 you need to regenerate the autoconf files. You'll need these additional
127 Now you should be able to regenerate the files with
129 autoreconf --verbose --install --force
131 After that go back to the configure step above.
134 Do It Yourself II: compiling against self-compiled pidgin
135 =========================================================
137 If you have compiled pidgin from source code yourself then you'll have to
138 specify the correct installation path in configure. Usually pidgin is
139 installed in /usr/local so the following command should work
141 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
143 The rest of the steps are the same as in the previous section.