Compile Pidgin 2.5.0 for Ubuntu
20Aug08
Finally Pidgin 2.5.0 is released. Offline message with MSN is supported as well as Ability to create custom smileys :)
Now I don’t have to log into MSN with other messenger to check if I have any offline messages.
I have not seen it updated on Hardy repo so I decided to build from source
Firstly get all the required headers.
sudo apt-get install build-essential network-manager-dev
sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin
And then extract the file.
tar jxvf pidgin-2.5.0.tar.bz2
Finally compile it
cd pidgin-2.5.0
./configure --enable-gnutls=yes
make && sudo make install
Filed under: ubuntu | 5 Comments
Tags: linux, pidgin, ubuntu
sudo apt-get install build-essential network-monitor-dev
That is wrong, you have to install network-manager-dev
oh true, i will correct it, thanks :)
Thank you for this, it saved a lot of time!