[OTR-users] pidgin-otr install errors

[William]

Hey Ian,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I finally got it though, and I'm using v 2.4.2

Sorry for the caps, but I just copied and pasted the below from the 
notes I'm saving for future reference.

"export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

BEFORE YOU RUN THE ./CONFIG STRING IN THE PIDGIN-OTR SOURCE DIRECTORY!

THEN..........


YOU HAVE TO COPY ALL THE OTR FILES FROM /USR/LIB/PIDGIN TO 
/USR/LOCAL/LIB/PIDGIN TO GET THE PLUGIN TO SHOW UP IN THE PIDGIN TOOLS 
MENU!"

Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 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
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