Comments on: Installing Pidgin in Linux from Source http://kyleabaker.com/2007/10/07/installing-pidgin-in-linux-from-source/ Web Technologies, Tips, Tricks and my Life Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Leonard http://kyleabaker.com/2007/10/07/installing-pidgin-in-linux-from-source/#comment-351 Leonard Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:16:42 +0000 http://kyleabaker.com/wordpress/?p=64#comment-351 Thanks for the guide! I have a debian Etch 40r3 system, (mostly KDE in my case), and had to use a bunch of disable switches when running the ./configure command - it wanted alot of libraries that weren't on my system. Example: (as root from inside the pidgin-2.4.3 directory) ./configure --disable-screensaver --disable-startup-notification --disable-gtkspell --disable-gstreamer --disable-meanwhile --disable-avahi --disable-dbus --disable-tcl That's after I installed the XML parser and Perl libraries. apt-get install libxml-parser-perl and apt-get install libperl-dev Without the guide you posted here, and the good documentation during the ./configure stage of the pidgin install, I would not have pidgin running on my Debian system. Which would be odd - since I already had it on my XP system! Thanks Debian IceWeasel 2.0.0.12 on Debian GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux
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Thanks for the guide!
I have a debian Etch 40r3 system, (mostly KDE in my case), and had to use a bunch of disable switches when running the ./configure command - it wanted alot of libraries that weren’t on my system.
Example: (as root from inside the pidgin-2.4.3 directory)

./configure –disable-screensaver –disable-startup-notification –disable-gtkspell –disable-gstreamer –disable-meanwhile –disable-avahi –disable-dbus –disable-tcl

That’s after I installed the XML parser and Perl libraries.

apt-get install libxml-parser-perl
and
apt-get install libperl-dev

Without the guide you posted here, and the good documentation during the ./configure stage of the pidgin install, I would not have pidgin running on my Debian system. Which would be odd - since I already had it on my XP system!
Thanks

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