Setting up Pidgin with Skype and Slack on the Cosmo

[TheNetEffect]

Pidgin is installable for ARM64 on the Cosmo but to make it useful you need to add a couple of Plugin's.

Assuming you have installed Pidgin lets first setup Slack:

sudo apt install git ;Install git if it is not installed
sudo apt install make ;Installs make if not installed
sudo apt install libpurple-dev ;required lib for the plugin

next clone the open source plug-in locally

git clone https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple.git

cd slack-libpurple
sudo make install

Now lets do the same for the Skype plugin

First lets ensure the pre-req. libs are installed

sudo apt-get install libjson-glib-dev
sudo apt-get install cmake gcc

now lets clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin.git

and then

cd skype4pidgin/skypeweb
make
sudo make install

Now Skype is also completed.

If Pidgin was running when you did these installs you will need to close it and relaunch to see the plugins.