Compiling Pidgin

[Ahmed]

Hello, I am neither new to Linux nor Ubuntu, however this is my first day with Kubuntu and KDE in general. I have a question about compiling Pidgin from the source as it is not available in the repositories. I have compiled applications from source a lot in GNOME before but never in KDE. When I come to compile Pidgin, I cd into the directory and ./configure. Up to that point all is well, however when I make, Konsole returns this error:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Can you please tell me why it can't find a makefile? I downloaded the package from the official website. Thanks in advance.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Compiling Pidgin

apt-get install gaim

(further reading)

[gnowak]

Re: Compiling Pidgin

Hmm does apt-get install gaim work to install pidgin?

You can also get Pidgin here: http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=pidgin

[Ahmed]

Re: Compiling Pidgin

Thanks everybody, but I figured it out. You need to build the GAIM dependencies first.

[SheeEttin]

Re: Compiling Pidgin

"apt-get build-dep gaim" works (pretty well), if that isn't what you used.

[Ahmed]

Re: Compiling Pidgin

No that is what I used.