Linux on a Latitude D630. The journey

I really like to have the Festival plugin for Pidgin.
I followed these instructions but I had some issues.
Here is the fix I found.

Step 1)

Download the .tar.gz file from the pidgin-festival project.

Step 2)

Untar the archive:

tar zxvf pidgin-festival-VERSION.tar.gz (VERSION can change depending on the version you download)

Step 3)

Run autogen

./autogen.sh

Step 4)

Configure:

./configure

Here is where I got some problems. It complained that the "purple" library package was missing. I realized I had to install the libpurple-devel package. This is what I did:

sudo yum install libpurple-devel

And that fixed that problem. The next issue was that it complained that the "pidgin" package was missing. I had to install pidgin-devel package with:

sudo yum install pidgin-devel

Now I was able to run configure with no issues.

Step 5)

To compile just type 'make':

make

Step 6)

Install it by typing:

sudo make install

Step 7)

If all goes well, you should now restart Pidgin and should be able to see the plugin there.

When I tried to configure the plugin it complained that it could not find any voices in /usr/share/festival/voices. I checked and the folder did not exist. On the other hand the voices could be found at /usr/share/festival/lib/voices so to fix this I did:

cd /usr/share/festival
sudo ln -s lib/voices

And the symlink was created from /usr/share/festival/lib/voices to /usr/share/festival/voices.

Please let me now if you have any issues!