How to install Pidgin on Debian

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.

sudo apt-get install libxml-parser-perl
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install libnss3-dev
./configure --enable-nss
make
make check
sudo 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!

Posted: May 2nd, 2008
Categories: computer, geeky
Comments: View Comments.
  • great, thks
  • To me it sounds as if the configure script didn't finish running. Did you get any troublesome output from doing ./configure?
  • Jake
    Hi, great tutorial. But...when I do make, it says something like "no target specified." i'm in the installer folder...whats wrong?
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