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.