How to install Pidgin 2.4.3 in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) From source code

21 Comments to “How to install Pidgin 2.4.3 in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) From source code”

1. CracKPod says:

   July 13, 2008 at 9:19 am

   Why don’t they simply pack those libraries in the tarball? It’s so useless to always need to download some development files from somehwere just to compile a simple little application like Pidgin and install it.
   Just pack it as a *.deb and you’re done.

   Really…

2. xyz says:

   July 13, 2008 at 11:20 am

   there is even better way, to install it directly from DEB package, from here:
   http://www.getdeb.net/app/Pidgin

3. leshiy says:

   July 14, 2008 at 2:39 am

   just run

   sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin

   and that will install all the missing dependencies. That work for any application which you’re trying to compile from source, as long as ubuntu is familiar with the package ( ie has it in its repositories db )

   not sure if aptitude has a similar option. if some one knows – share 🙂

4. Chris Lees says:

   July 14, 2008 at 11:40 am

   There is one additional step:

   When you run the configure script and you see the line “Checking for pot ‘o’ gold: Not found”, you are obliged to chuckle.

   @CracKPod: Some of those libraries can introduce security flaws if old versions are used, so it’s better for the user to get known good versions from their distro, rather than use a possibly old and insecure version that would be included in the Pidgin tarball. Also, at compile-time you can enable some spiffy features – you can’t do that if you’re just installing a Debian package.

5. m1xram says:

   July 21, 2008 at 5:28 am

   Leshiy,
   Thanks for the useful information. To all others I would suggest ignoring the “How Not to Fix Any Problems” article above. I did…

   sudo apt-get build-dep gaim
   sudo apt-get install network-manager-dev

   … then I could build it with all the features enabled.

6. Djoko Srs says:

   July 28, 2008 at 2:58 pm

   Bonjour,… try search avahi-glib in synaptic — libavahi-glib-dev … 🙂 …. sorry my english isn’t good

7. Ishino says:

   August 19, 2008 at 4:31 pm

   The tip from Leshiy helped me to install Pidgin 2.5 on Hardy, thx!

   sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin
   sudo apt-get install network-manager-dev

8. George B. says:

   August 20, 2008 at 11:34 am

   for xscreensaver install libxss-dev

9. leo.china says:

   August 21, 2008 at 3:11 am

   there is list,all of pidgin is need.

   XScreenSaver extension development headers not found.: libxss-dev

   Startup notification development headers not found.: libstartup-notification0-dev

   GStreamer development headers not found.: libgstreamer0.10-dev

   Meanwhile development headers not found.: libmeanwhile-dev

   D-Bus development headers not found.: libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev

   NetworkManager development headers not found.: network-manager-dev

   Perl development headers not found.: libperl-dev

   Tcl development headers not found.: tcl8.4-dev

   Tk development headers not found.: tk8.4.dev

   GtkSpell development headers not found.?libgtkspell-dev

   avahi development headers not found.:libavahi-client-dev libavahi-glib-dev

10. Venkatesh says:

    September 2, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    A million thanks to leo.china for his valuable info 🙂

11. anonim says:

    September 8, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    Thanks for the list

12. Yatta says:

    September 15, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    One small adjustment I would make, when you are finished with “make distclean”
    run:
    sudo ldconfig

    Before when i tried to run pidgin i received:
    pidgin: error while loading shared libraries: libpurple.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    I ran the above command voila!!!!
    BTW I compiled on Gutsy

13. vdias says:

    January 20, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    Thankz!

14. stano says:

    March 10, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    thanks very much !

15. Lindylex says:

    March 19, 2009 at 6:22 am

    Leshiy because of that post you added years to my life!

    Leshiy Says:
    July 14th, 2008 at 2:39 am
    just run
    sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin
    and that will install all the missing dependencies.

16. SWAP says:

    September 30, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    I know this post is old one but just to inform that I installed Pidgin with everything.I didn’t skip anything.There is avahi pac avaialable,d-bus pack available and Xscreensaver too.I installed some tk pack which installed Xscreensaver dev pack too. 🙂 😉

17. Zolta says:

    November 28, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Same here
    ./configure
    misses some libraries

    solution: before you run
    sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin
    you need to set synaptic to use the lenny-backports distribution packeges

    configure complete
    now the make makes pidgin 2.6.3

18. erdos says:

    November 19, 2010 at 1:23 am

    thank so much! this solved my problem!

19. andcb says:

    March 24, 2011 at 11:00 am

    thanks! it help me!

20. peawormsworth says:

    February 14, 2013 at 11:31 pm

    very useful. Although a summary apt-get line would be useful to speed up importing all those packages.

    Also, I am getting using a –disable-vv configure directive as voice/video dev files are missing. Any tips on how to get those packages?

    Error is:
    Dependencies for voice/video were not met.
    Install the necessary gstreamer and farstream packages first.
    * tried to find and install these packages, but couldnt seem to find the right ones.

21. sng says:

    February 4, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    for AVAHI You need:

    libavahi-client-dev

    and it works fine