Changes between Version 26 and Version 27 of Installing Pidgin

Timestamp:

Sep 23, 2007, 11:46:24 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

John Bailey

Comment:

Additional information provided by nosnilmot, plus an attempt to make the answer a bit more clear.

Installing Pidgin

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 === Why can't I compile Pidgin? ===
-You're probably missing some dependencies.  The configure script will tell you when you are missing required dependencies.  Remember that if you're using packages for a RPM or Debian-based system (including Ubuntu) that having just a library's package installed is not sufficient--you must also have the -devel (RPM systems) or -dev (Debian-based systems) package installed.  If configure is succeeding, but make fails, this is harder to diagnose and you will probably want to drop by the IRC channel or XMPP conference listed on PidginCommunity to get help.
+You're probably missing some dependencies.  The configure script will tell you when you are missing required dependencies.  Remember that if you're using an RPM-based (!RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE, Mandriva, etc.)  or Debian-based system (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.) that having just a library's package installed is not sufficient--you must also have the -devel (RPM systems) or -dev (Debian-based systems) package for each library installed.  If configure is succeeding, but make fails, this is harder to diagnose and you will probably want to drop by the IRC channel or XMPP conference listed on PidginCommunity to get help.
 
 If you're on a Debian-based distribution, you may find `apt-get build-dep pidgin` useful; this requires that you have a `deb-src` line configured in `/etc/apt/sources.list`.
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+RPM-based distribution users may find `yum-builddep pidgin-VERSION.src.rpm` useful if a source RPM is available and the distribution uses the yum tools.
 
 === How do I apply the patch "something.diff"? ===