I don't know why i always end up doing these things on Friday evenings.

This is nominally part of my ongoing series of how to get my perfect Debian set-up, just so that if i ever have to reinstall again i'll know how to get my computer back the way i like it.

Download Pidgin source code from www.pidgin.im.

Unzip it.

# apt-get install libxml-parser-perl
# apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
# apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
# apt-get install libxml2-dev
# apt-get install libnss3-dev

$ ./configure --enable-nss
$ make
$ make check
# make install

It was kind enough to put a shortcut in my Applications - Internet folder. Yay! :)

Update: modified to include the SSL libraries for googletalk support! Thanks to this for the advice - works a treat!

1. Jake Says:
   December 12th, 2008 at 21:36

   Hi, great tutorial. But…when I do make, it says something like "no target specified." i'm in the installer folder…whats wrong?

2. Aimee Says:
   December 13th, 2008 at 00:26

   To me it sounds as if the configure script didn't finish running. Did you get any troublesome output from doing ./configure?