A replacement prpl for Hangouts in Pidgin/libpurple to support the proprietary protocol that Google uses for its Hangouts service. So far it supports all the fun things that aren't part of the XMPP interface, such as Group Chats, synchronised history between devices and SMS support via Google Voice.
This plugin is written by Eion Robb and Mike 'Maiku' Ruprecht. Heavily inspired by the hangups library by Tom Dryer (et. al.) using code from Nakul Gulati and protobufs from Darryl Pogue
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To compile, just do the standard make && sudo make install dance. You'll need development packages for libpurple, libjson-glib, glib and libprotobuf-c to be able to compile.
Create the debian control file
dh_make -p purple-hangouts_0.0.0.1 --single --native --copyright gpl3 --email debuggerboy@gmail.com -y
Run the following commands from a terminal
#!sh
sudo apt-get install -y libpurple-dev libjson-glib-dev libglib2.0-dev libprotobuf-c-dev protobuf-c-compiler mercurial make;
git clone https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-hangouts && cd purple-hangouts;
make && sudo make install
On Fedora you can install package from Fedora's main repository:
#!sh
sudo dnf install purple-hangouts pidgin-hangouts
On CentOS/RHEL you can install package from Fedora's EPEL7 repository:
#!sh
sudo yum install purple-hangouts pidgin-hangouts
On Arch Linux you can install a package from the AUR:
#!sh
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/purple-hangouts-hg.tar.gz
tar -xvf purple-hangouts-hg.tar.gz
cd purple-hangouts-hg
makepkg -sri
#!sh
mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EionRobb/purple-hangouts/master/purple-hangouts.spec -O ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/purple-hangouts.spec
sudo dnf builddep ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/purple-hangouts.spec
spectool --all --get-files ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/purple-hangouts.spec --directory ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/purple-hangouts.spec
The result can be found in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/`uname -m`/ directory.
Use the Windows installer to make life easier, otherwise development builds of Windows dll's live at http://eion.robbmob.com/libhangouts.dll (you'll also need libprotobuf-c-1.dll and libjson-glib-1.0.dll in your Pidgin folder, included in the installer)
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