pidgin 2.7.9 install requirement on Debian 5.03

david08 · 01-06-2011, 01:34 PM

hi

i'm trying to install 2.7.9 on debian 5.03, when i'm checking with ./configure show me a requirement:

Code:

checking for GLIB... no
no
configure: error: 

You must have GLib 2.12.0 or newer development headers installed to build.

If you have these installed already you may need to install pkg-config so
I can find them.

last time when I've installed this package on Ubuntu didn't worked anymore and I had to reinstall it.
So, my question is: Should I install this library? or what should I do?

All I need is Pidgin for Yahoo! Msg for chat and file transfer. With this version of Pidgin I can't connect to Yahoo servers, changes pager servers and same.

Thanks in advance.

TobiSGD · 01-06-2011, 01:39 PM

There is pidgin 2.7.3 in the backports repository, may be that that will also fit your needs, and you can install it with apt, so that the package-manager actually knows about it.

david08 · 01-06-2011, 02:10 PM

I have installed version 2.4.3.When I'm trying to install it :

Code:

debian:/home/david# apt-get install pidgin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
pidgin is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I'm using ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian as software source.(maybe this is the problem)

j1alu · 01-06-2011, 02:17 PM

http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
To be clear: You don't replace your main debian-repo by it, but add it.
Install with:
apt-get install -t lenny-backports pidgin

david08 · 01-06-2011, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j1alu

http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
To be clear: You don't replace your main debian-repo by it, but add it.
Install with:
apt-get install -t lenny-backports pidgin

Thank you very much for link.Worked perfect.