Dependencies

A table showing some key libraries that Pidgin and libpurple depend on, and the versions of those libraries available in popular Linux distributions.

	End-of-support	glib2	gtk3	webkitgtk	gstreamer1	farstream02 / farstream	json-glib	autoconf	automake	libtool	intltool
Arch	N/A	2.48.2	3.20.9	2.4.11	1.8.3	0.2.8 / 0.1.2	1.2.2	2.69	1.15	2.4.6	0.51.0
Debian 8.0 (stable, jessie)	?	2.42.1	3.14.5	2.4.8	1.4.4	0.2.4 / 0.1.2	1.0.2	2.69	1.14.1	2.4.2	0.50.2
Fedora 23	2016-12	2.46.2	3.18.9	2.4.11	1.6.4	0.2.7 / 0.1.2	1.2.2	2.69	1.15	2.4.6	0.51.0
Fedora 24	2017	2.48.2	3.20.9	2.4.11	1.8.3	0.2.7 / 0.1.2	1.2.2	2.69	1.15	2.4.6	0.51.0
Gentoo	N/A	2.48.1	3.20.8	2.12.3	1.8.2	0.2.8 / 0.1.2	1.2.2	2.69	1.15	2.4.6	0.51.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6 and Scientific Linux 6	2020-11	2.28.8	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2.63	1.11.1	2.2.6	0.41.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7 and Scientific Linux 7	2024-06	2.40.0	3.8.8	2.0.4	1.0.7	0.2.3 / 0.1.2	0.16.0	2.69	1.13.4	2.4.2	0.50.2
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) Mint 13 (Maya)	2017-04	2.32.4	3.4.2	1.8.3	N/A	- / 0.1.2	0.14.2	2.68	1.11.3	2.4.2	0.50.2
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) Mint 17 (Qiana)	2019-04	2.40.2	3.10.8	2.4.10	1.2.4	0.2.3 / 0.1.2	0.16.2	2.69	1.14.1	2.4.2	0.50.2
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) Mint 18 (Sarah)	2021-04	2.48.1	3.18.9	2.4.11	1.8.2	0.2.7 / 0.1.2	1.1.2	2.69	1.15	2.4.2	0.51.0

Note: This table is updated by hand and might be out of date. If you desperately want to use a newer version of a package, it's a good idea to check whether the distribution has been updated with the new version.

The following Linux distributions are not listed because they have already reached their end-of-support date, or will reach their end-of-support date too soon for us to accommodate them.

• Fedora 22 and earlier
• Ubuntu 10.04 and earlier LTS releases
• Ubuntu 15.10 and earlier non-LTS releases
• Red Hat Enterprise (CentOS, Scientific Linux) 5.x and earlier