Changes between Version 33 and Version 34 of Installing Pidgin

Timestamp:

Mar 22, 2008, 3:40:41 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

resiak

Comment:

explain how to add deb-src stuff.

Installing Pidgin

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 In short, there are a lot of good reasons to ''not'' use Pidgin MTN if one does not wish to develop Pidgin, Pidgin plugins, or a codebase which interacts with Pidgin in some intimate way.  There are, however, only a few reasons ''to'' use Pidgin MTN outside of the above.  Please weigh these things carefully and decide whether you wish to use Pidgin MTN for a good reason which furthers the community, or for selfish reasons which are not entirely important.
 
-=== I am on Ubuntu; how do I get $DEPENDENCY installed so I can compile Pidgin? ===
-You need to install the development headers; these are the -dev packages. A simple "apt-get build-dep gaim" will find and install all of the required header packages for you.
+=== I am on Debian or Ubuntu; how do I get $DEPENDENCY installed so I can compile Pidgin? ===
+You need to install the development headers; these are the -dev packages. A simple `apt-get build-dep pidgin` (or if you're on an older release which doesn't have a `pidgin` package, `apt-get build-dep gaim`) will find and install all of the required header packages for you.
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+If `apt-get build-dep` fails with a message like
+
+> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
+
+then you need to add `deb-src` lines to your `/etc/apt/sources.list` corresponding to each of the `deb` lines already there.  If editing configuration files scares you, Ubuntu has a "Software Sources" control panel in System -> Administration which has some magic tickyboxes to do this for you.
 
 === How can I get Pidgin to report idleness based on keyboard and mouse usage? ===