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

By: andcb

andcb — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:00:44 +0000

thanks! it help me!

By: erdos

erdos — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:23:44 +0000

thank so much! this solved my problem!

By: Zolta

Zolta — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:23:35 +0000

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

By: SWAP

SWAP — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:25:14 +0000

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.

By: Lindylex

Lindylex — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:22:42 +0000

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.

By: stano

stano — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:56:21 +0000

thanks very much !

By: vdias

vdias — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:33:04 +0000

Thankz!

By: Yatta

Yatta — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:02:55 +0000

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

By: anonim

anonim — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:30:35 +0000

Thanks for the list

By: Venkatesh

Venkatesh — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:40:11 +0000

A million thanks to leo.china for his valuable info

By: leo.china

leo.china — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:11:06 +0000

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

By: George B.

George B. — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:34:41 +0000

for xscreensaver install libxss-dev

By: Ishino

Ishino — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:31:56 +0000

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

By: Djoko Srs

Djoko Srs — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:58:45 +0000

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

By: m1xram

m1xram — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:28:10 +0000

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.

By: Chris Lees

Chris Lees — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:40:47 +0000

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.

By: leshiy

leshiy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:39:06 +0000

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

By: xyz

xyz — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:20:18 +0000

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

By: CracKPod

CracKPod — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:19:46 +0000

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…