(Image source: Pidgin website)
1) Get the source code by going to the Pidgin site and downloading the Linux source.
2) Unpack the archive with Archive Manager or equivalent.
3) Cd (change directory) into the extracted directory. Run the following command in Terminal, but replace the_directory with the directory name.
cd the_directory
4) Type in this command into Terminal to remove previous versions pf Pidgin (will not remove your personal info):
sudo apt-get remove –purge pidgin
5) Now, we need to install the dependencies to allow us to compile:
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev checkinstall libgnutls-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev gettext libgtkspell-dev
6) Wait for the packages to install, then run this command in Terminal:
./configure –prefix=/usr/local –enable-gnutls=yes
7) After that is done, run this in Terminal:
sudo make
When that is finally done (10 – 20 minutes later), run this in Terminal:
sudo checkinstall –exclude=/etc/gconf,/usr/bin,/usr/lib
Uninstallation
1) To uninstall Pidgin, run this command in Terminal:
sudo apt-get remove –purge pidgin pidgin-data
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