Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Installing Pidgin in CentOS 7

There isn't much to this, but I just wanted to make an easy copy/paste for all the required packages.


Pidgin Version pidgin-2.10.11


Install pre-req for the build:
(You may need to install the development tools: sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools')

 sudo yum install -y libpur* gtk2-devel libXScrnSaver-devel libSM-devel gtkspell-devel libxml2-devel gstreamer-devel farstream-devel libidn-devel meanwhile-devel avahi-devel avahi-glib-devel NetworkManager-devel gnutls-devel tcl-devel tk-devel  

Installation:

Unzip the source tar -jxf <pidgin.tar.bz2>
Cd <new dir from untar>
./configure
make

sudo make install