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 (1.0/0.10)	farstream02 / 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	0.50.2
Debian 7.0 (stable, wheezy)	2016-04?	2.33.12 + really2.32.4	2.24.10	3.4.2	1.8.1	-- / 0.10.36	-- / 0.1.2 / --	0.14.2	2.69	1.11.6	2.4.2	0.50.2
Debian 8.0 (testing, jessie)	?	2.42.1	2.24.25	3.14.5	2.4.8	1.4.4 / 0.10.36	0.2.4 / 0.1.2 / --	1.0.2	2.69	1.14.1	2.4.2	0.50.2
Fedora 20	2015-06	2.38.2	2.24.22	3.10.6	2.2.4	1.2.2/0.10.36	0.2.3 / 0.1.2 / --	0.16.2	2.69	1.13.4	2.4.2	0.50.2
Gentoo	N/A	2.32.4	2.24.12	3.4.4	1.8.3	1.0.5 / 0.10.35	0.1.2 / 0.0.31	0.14.2	2.69	1.11.6	2.4	0.50.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6 and Scientific Linux 6	2017-03	2.28.8	2.24.23	N/A	1.4.3	N/A / 0.10.29	- / - / 0.0.16	N/A	2.63	1.11.1	2.2.6	0.41.0
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) Mint 13 (Maya)	2017-04	2.32.3	2.24.10	3.4.2	1.8.3 / 1.8.3	- / 0.10.36	- / 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	2.40.0	2.24.23	3.4.2	2.4.0 / 2.4.0	1.2.3 / 0.10.36	0.2.3 / 0.1.2 / -	0.16.2	2.69	1.14.1	2.4.2	0.50.2

Note: This table is updated by hand and might be out of date.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 19 and earlier
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 13.10 and earlier
• Red Hat Enterprise (CentOS, Scientific Linux) 5.x and earlier