Howto compile Pidgin IM

**fakie_flip** · August 1st, 2007

Has anyone been able to get off the record plugin compiled for pidgin? I tried many times, and it seems impossible.

**syko21** · August 2nd, 2007

it worked fine for me. I downloaded the source and

Code:

sudo apt-get build-dep gaim-otr
./configure
make
sudo make install

and then restart pidgin, it worked fine.

PS> I built this package a while ago so there might be a few problems during ./configure that are dependency related but its easy enough to figure out.

**tact** · August 21st, 2007

If after compiling from source you get the error "cannot load libpurple.so.0" or similar... it could be because it was installed to /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib.

I had this tonight after compiling the latest version 2.1.1 from source.

make a symbolic link fixes it.

Code:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpurple.so.0 /usr/lib/

**OttifantSir** · August 30th, 2007

I wanted to do this, but stopped after the first step, downloading the dependencies. It's a program that in itself is less than 10 MB (if memory serves correctly from the Windows version), yet the dependencies of the build-packages come in at near 40 MB in addition?

Well, will compile this if I get an answer to this: Are these packages needed afterwards, and if not, how to remove them?

**Nekiruhs** · August 30th, 2007

Originally Posted by OttifantSir

I wanted to do this, but stopped after the first step, downloading the dependencies. It's a program that in itself is less than 10 MB (if memory serves correctly from the Windows version), yet the dependencies of the build-packages come in at near 40 MB in addition?

Well, will compile this if I get an answer to this: Are these packages needed afterwards, and if not, how to remove them?

Any reason you want to compile it? Its packaged in a deb on Getdeb.net already.

**faxmaster** · August 30th, 2007

Originally Posted by OttifantSir

Well, will compile this if I get an answer to this: Are these packages needed afterwards, and if not, how to remove them?

You'll need them if you plan on upgrading/compiling future versions.

**syko21** · August 30th, 2007

you can copy the output of sudo apt-get build-dep gaim and install them with sudo apt-get install ***pasted packages***. Then just remove them using console history after you've compiled pidgin.

**blunden** · September 13th, 2007

How do I get it added to the "Program"-menu? Now I have to run it with "pidgin" in the terminal. Also, do I still need the directory I extracted the source and compiled the app in?

I followed this tutorial.

http://leetturtle.com/compile-pidgin...-source-ubuntu

**chessnut** · September 14th, 2007

For those who are facing problems with checkinstall trying to overwrite files in /usr/bin (eg./usr/bin/ld), here's a quick fix for it:

1) Run checkinstall with the --inspect option (ie. checkinstall --inspect -D)

2) Upon successful compilation, checkinstall will prompt if you would like to review the files to be included in the pacakage. Choose "Yes"

3) Vi will be started and you will see a list of files which will be included in the package. Remove all the lines that do not contain the word "Purple" or "Pidgin"

**To delete lines in Vi, press the "d" key twice. To delete multiple lines (eg. 5 lines), type "5dd". **

4) Once that is done, all the necessary pidgin files will be included only and the creation and installation of the .deb file should be 100% successful.

Hope this helps.