[OTR-users] Off the record package on the ubuntu server ?

Esurnir esurnir at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 18:40:16 EST 2008


Thank you for the hint about the dependencies, like I said I'm a bit new to
linux but this solved my problem completely. Thank you very much :).
Jean-Baptiste Zeller

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Thomas B. <tommy.b at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:42:01AM -0500, Esurnir wrote:
> > I was wondering would it be possible to update the package (still at 3.0at the
> > time I speak) on the ubuntu package distribution ?
>
> pidgin-otr 3.1.0 will be in the next Ubuntu release:
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/pidgin-otr
>
> AFAIK the release of Hardy is scheduled for April.
>
> > I tried to compile the 3.1 but due to the fact that gtk is labeled as
> being
> > version 2.0 it became a true nightmare, never succeeded into finaly
> compiling
> > the pidgin-otr plugin (libotr went fine).
>
> Hm, I compiled pidgin-otr on Ubuntu without problems. Are you sure that
> you have all the dependencies installed (especially the required
> development packages)? You can do that with
>
>        sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin-otr
>
> The only issue I encountered when compiling from source is that
> pidgin-otr gets installed to /usr/local by default, while the Pidgin
> binary provided by Ubuntu is installed in /usr. I solved that by adding
> "--prefix=/usr" to the configure options for pidgin-otr.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
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