Installing Pidgin 2.0 on Debian Etch

Wow, lots of libraries to install if you want to build Pidgin from src on Debain Etch. I can’t even name them all.

  • Get the Pidgin source.
  • Unpack tar xjf pidgin*.bz2
  • run ./configure
  • keep installing development libs and perl XML::Parser (which requires libexpat-dev) until config stops complaining
  • make
  • sudo make install

You may also pick up the experimental debs here. For me the experimental debs had too many unfamiliar dependencies.

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