[OTR-users] pidgin-otr install errors

[Ian Goldberg]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:12:39PM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> William <william at escapevelocitypub.com> wrote:
> 
> > Running Pidgin 2.2.2
> 
> Why are you using such an old version?
> 
> > 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:
> > 
> > Package pidgin was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> 
> This tells you just what I told you in the first line of this mail:
> Your pidgin version is way too old.

Huh?  OTR works fine with pidgin >= 2.0, as the above line indicates.
2.2.2 should pose no problem.

What's probably happening is that your OS reinstall failed to install
the -dev (sometimes called -devel) version of the pidgin package.

That package contains pidgin.pc, as well as the pidgin header files
needed to compile pidgin plugins like pidgin-otr.

   - Ian