I don’t know why i always end up doing these things on Friday evenings.
This is nominally part of my ongoing series of how to get my perfect Debian set-up, just so that if i ever have to reinstall again i’ll know how to get my computer back the way i like it.
Download Pidgin source code from www.pidgin.im.
Unzip it.
sudo apt-get install libxml-parser-perl sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev sudo apt-get install libnss3-dev
./configure --enable-nss make make check sudo make install
It was kind enough to put a shortcut in my Applications – Internet folder. Yay! :)
Update: modified to include the SSL libraries for googletalk support! Thanks to this for the advice – works a treat!
Hi, great tutorial. But…when I do make, it says something like “no target specified.” i’m in the installer folder…whats wrong?
To me it sounds as if the configure script didn’t finish running. Did you get any troublesome output from doing ./configure?
great, thks