= 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'''[[BR]]and CentOS 6[[BR]]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'''[[BR]]and CentOS 7[[BR]]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)[[BR]]'''Mint 13''' (Maya) =|| 2017-04 || 2.32.3 || 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)[[BR]]'''Mint 17''' (Qiana) =|| 2019-04 || 2.40.0 || 3.4.2 || 2.4.0 || 1.2.3 || 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Note: This table is updated by hand and might be out of date.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 22 and earlier
* Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
* Ubuntu 13.10 and earlier
* Red Hat Enterprise (CentOS, Scientific Linux) 5.x and earlier