Does pidgin need an Internet connection per se or can it run on internal Corporate LAN?

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

Bonjour does not require any configuration besides your screen name.
If you and everyone else is on the same subnet, using bonjour is
really trivial. IMHO bonjour will be a *much* simpler solution than
setting up a jabber server. Its just a question of getting bonjour
support compiled in.
For Slackware, you need to recompile avahi with
"--enable-compat-howl", pidgin's configure checks for bonjour
dynamically.
And for ubuntu, the 'debuntu' repository
(http://repository.debuntu.org) has Gaim/Pidgin recompiled with
bonjour support.

On 7/27/07, Bill Fassler <bill.fassler at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thats enlightening.  I built pidgin from the source tarball for pidgin-2.0.0
> on the SlackWare box and I still don't have bonjour.  I am also now in the
> process of building, installing and configuring the jabber server, so I most
> likely won't even need bonjour, but I would like to understand what hoops I
> may have to jump through to get it if and when I may decide to try it.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
> Luke Schierer <lschiere at pidgin.im> wrote:
>  On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:02:07AM -0700, Bill Fassler wrote:
> > OK thanks I am just trying to understand my options. I do not have bonjour
> as a selection on either of my GAIM clients. My Ubuntu box is suppose to be
> 100% updated. I will leave the isolated LAN and connect to the outside WAN
> just to see if I can find pidgin and/or an IM server that I can install.
> >
> > BTW - Why is the application still GAIM on my new Ubuntu distribution?
> >
> > I just configured and built pidgin on the slackware box and when I went
> into /usr/local/bin and launched it, it claimed that it couldn't find
> libpurple even though I see it in /usr/local/lib.
> >
> > I just did a regular native build
> >
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
>
> Like most distributions, ubuntu only updates its released versions for
> security and other significant bugs. The next version will have the
> newer software.
>
> Many of the distros do not compile with bonjour support, because it
> requires other libraries. In particular, ubuntu does not because the
> howl compat libraries are not in main, but only in universal.
>
> luke
>
>
> >
> > So now I am wondering why my recently built pidgin didn't install
> correctly (at least I assume it didn't since it can't find its own
> libraries).
> >
> > Ka-Hing Cheung wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 10:20 -0700, Bill Fassler
> wrote:
> > > Well we deleted all our accounts and started over creating an account
> > > using groupwise and the first thing that happens is that it fails
> > > claiming it can not connect to the server. I see in the advanced
> > > setting a place to put the IP of the server but like I said I am
> > > trying to do point to point IM on an internal isolated LAN. We have
> > > no IM server.
> > >
> > > It appears to me you specifically suggest groupwise because it doesn't
> > > need a server. I am confused.
> >
> > No, Luke suggested those protocols that don't require to connect to a
> > particular server, or any server at all. It looks like bonjour is what
> > you want if everyone is on the same subnet.
> >
> > -khc
> >
> >
> >
> >
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