Use the Chat "Line" protocol in Pidgin for Linux Mint 17 Qiana

First of all LINE is an instant messaging application for cell phones (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Firefox OS, among others) that can also be installed on Windows and Mac. Here I will show you how to install purple-line un Plugin from third parties for Pidgin (multiprotocol messaging client) in Linux Mint 17  (According to the creator's page, the plugin was tested on Ubuntu and Arch Linux).

Obviously if we don't have Pidgin installed, install it

$ sudo apt-get install pidgin

Before downloading the Plugin from the Creator We must have 3 things: libpurple (which is installed when installing pidgin), the apache thrift compiler and the line_main.thrift file (which is downloaded from the same plugin page)

Installing Thrift

The compiler is available in the Ubuntu repositories, but the author suggests compiling it from source code, which I empirically verified that this is how it has to be, therefore, let's get to work:

1.- Install dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libevent-dev automake libtool flex bison pkg-config g++ libssl-dev

2.- Download and unzip

We will use version 0.9.1
$ wget http://www.bizdirusa.com/mirrors/apache/thrift/0.9.1/thrift-0.9.1.tar.gz

$ tar -xvf thrift-0.9.1.tar.gz

3.- Configure and Make install

First access the folder
$ cd thrift-0.9.1
$ ./configure

Verify that at the terminal exit it says Building C ++ Library ………: yes, and then

$ make

$ sudo make install

Once Thrift is installed, we will now download the plugin.

Downloading and installing the Pidgin plugin

Download from here

and unzip.

The file was downloaded to me purple-line-04279d7.tar.gz In the address book ~ / Downloads, then to unzip

$ tar -xvf purple-line-04279d7.tar.gz

Now we will download line-protocol which contains the file line_main.thrift what do we need

Once downloaded line protocol, unzip it and the archive line_main.thrift copy it to the folder purple line

Now, enter the folder purple line and perform a make-install
$ make

$ make install

Now, in theory everything should be OK. Have created and copied the file libline.so a ~ / .purple / plugins , with which we can now add an account with the LINE protocol in Pidgin …… ..

but….

In my case it was not like that, there was a library of the thrift package that did not load in the system (I realized this since I placed debug window in pidgin when loading the plugins) and therefore the plugin didn't work for me, it was precisely the library libthrift-0.9.1.so . To correct this problem, the first thing we do is a search for the library in question with the command

$ sudo find / -name libthrift-0.9.1.so

which in my case gave 2 results:
1.- /usr/local/lib/libthrift-0.9.1.so
2.- ~ / Downloads / thrift-0.9.1 / lib / cpp / .libs / libthrift-0.9.1.so

The first address that it returns is the location of the library that we need since the second corresponds to the file that we downloaded. To add the environment variable permanently to the system what we do is add the address / Usr / local / lib a / etc / environment, we do this with the command

$ sudo echo 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib/"' >> /etc/environment

Now we load the environment variable.

source /etc/environment

And with this we can now use the LINE protocol in Pidgin.

Greetings friends