[OTR-users] Local installation of pidgin-otr

[Ian Goldberg]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:07:32PM +0100, Jan Kotuc wrote:
> Thanks a lot, that helped, but now i face another problem, hopefully the
> last one. ./configure for pidgin-otr still doesn't succeed. Instead, it
> prints this error message in the end:
> 
> ~~~~
> 
> checking for EXTRA... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0
> >= 2.6 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6 pidgin >= 2.0 purple >= 2.0) were not met:
> 
> No package 'pidgin' found
> No package 'purple' found
> 
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> 
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables EXTRA_CFLAGS
> and EXTRA_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> 
> ~~~~
> 
> That sort of puzzles me, because i'm sure there IS pidgin normally
> installed, since i use it every day :)
> Is there a workaround available? TIA for any help.

You probably have pidgin installed, but not the development bits you
need to build pidgin plugins like pidgin-otr.  You should have the files
pidgin.pc and purple.pc somwhere like /usr/lib/pkgconfig or
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.

   - Ian