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	gtk2	gtk3	webkitgtk (3.0/1.0)	gstreamer-1.0 (1.0/0.10)	farstream / farsight	json-glib	autoconf	automake	libtool	intltool
Arch	N/A	2.34.3	2.24.14	3.6.4	1.10.2	1.0.5/0.10.36	0.1.2/0.2.2	0.15.2	2.69	1.13.1	2.4.2	?
Debian 6.0 (stable, squeeze)	?	2.24.2	2.20.1	N/A?	?	?	?	0.10.2	2.67	1.11.1	?	0.41.1
Debian 7.0 (testing, wheezy)	?	2.33.12 + really2.32.4	2.24.10	N/A?	?	?	?	0.14.2	2.69	1.11.6	?	0.50.2
Fedora 17	mid 2013	2.32.4	2.24.13	3.4.4	1.8.3	--/0.10.36	0.1.2 / 0.0.31	0.14.2	2.68.4	1.11.6	2.4.2	?
Fedora 18	late 2013	2.34.2	2.24.13	3.6.4	1.10.2	1.0.4/--	0.2.2/--	0.15.2	2.69	1.12.2	2.4.2	0.50.2
Gentoo	N/A	2.32.4	2.24.12	3.4.4	?	?	?	0.14.2	2.69	1.11.6	?	?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6 and Scientific Linux 6	at least Q2 2016	2.22.5	2.18.9	N/A	?	?	?	N/A	2.63	1.11.1	?	?
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) Mint 13 (Maya)	2017-04	2.32.3	2.24.10	N/A?	?	?	?	0.14.2	2.68	1.11.3	?	?
Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) Mint 14 (Nadia)	2014-04	2.34.1	2.24.13	N/A?	?	?	?	0.15.2	2.69	1.11.6	?	?

Note: This table is updated by hand and might be out of date.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 16 and earlier
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 11.10 and earlier
• Red Hat Enterprise (CentOS, Scientific Linux) 5.x and earlier