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

6 Responses to “Compile Pidgin 2.5.0 for Ubuntu”

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1 gordoyuri on August 20, 2008 said:

sudo apt-get install build-essential network-monitor-dev

That is wrong, you have to install network-manager-dev

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2 Edward on August 20, 2008 said:

oh true, i will correct it, thanks :)

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3 g2-ee2ccac635b58554d90bb8015a964bc3 on August 21, 2008 said:

Thank you for this, it saved a lot of time!

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