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The easy way to taste the new Pidgin messenger

Here is how to easily prepare for and compile ("install") Pidgin 2.0 – popular instant message client Adium's predecessor – in KUbuntu, and other Debian based distributions.

Pidgin require a bunch of packages to compile. Luckily these are the same packages as required by the old Adium! Therefor you can cheat by using Gaim's requirements. Do it easily by running these commands to fetch all necessary packages, and clean out the old Gaim:

sudo apt-get remove gaim
sudo apt-get build-dep gaim
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-devd

When all requirements are satisfied, there is nothing more to it than downloading the Pidgin source and do a regular compile cycle to install Pidgin:
cd /directory-to-extracted-pidgin-files/
./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Copyright © 2007 Daniel Aleksandersen 2007-05-08 at 10:05

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