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Finch - Howto use Pidgin via Terminal Console

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For those who have starts getting in love with Terminal Console in Ubuntu , you may love to be able to do everything from the Terminal console. Even if I previously said, I've already bored with the terminal coz I see it every day... it is good to know that actually, your terminal can do almost everything you wanna do in your linux box. I just don't like the way it looks and feel because I love art and graphics . I like the eye catchy graphics and also the live cubic desktop effect and so on. Anyway, I would like to share on how to use your Pidgin from terminal console. I have a lot to say about situations where you only got your terminal console to use programs in linux. But lets keep it short and go straight to the point now. The program to enable you to use Pidgin via Terminal console is called Finch . Finch as in the manual is "A Pimpin’ Penguin console frontend to libpurple Instant Messaging client." Run this command on your terminal to install finch in Ubun