Changes between Version 49 and Version 50 of Installing Pidgin

Timestamp:

Jan 6, 2009, 5:25:14 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

John Bailey

Comment:

Installing build dependencies is already covered elsewhere. It is not necessary to duplicate this information.

Installing Pidgin

@@ -56 +56 @@
 Assuming you have all of the necessary libraries (sudo apt-get source pidgin and libgtk) and their headers installed (see the next few questions), you compile libpurple, Pidgin and Finch just like most applications:
 
-For compiling the headers of XScreenSaver, startup notification, meanwhile, d-bus, network manager, perl, tcl and tk are needed:
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-% sudo apt-get install libxss-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libmeanwhile-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev network-manager-dev libperl-dev tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev
-
 % tar xjvf pidgin-2.x.y.tar.bz2
 % cd pidgin-2.x.y
@@ -87 +84 @@
 > 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.
+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 checkboxes to do this for you.
 
 
 === How do I install the dependencies on Fedora (or similar)? ===
-
 
 RPM-based distribution users may find `yum-builddep pidgin-VERSION.src.rpm` useful if a source RPM is available and the distribution uses the yum tools.