Pidgin OTR plugin has dependency problem (libgcrypt)

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Hi,

I am trying to install the OTR plugin for Pidgin and it is telling me that I am missing a dependency which I think I have. These are the installation steps I have taken:

The configuration script then runs…

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
...
checking for LIBGCRYPT - version >= 1.2.0... no
configure: error: libgcrypt 1.2.0 or newer is required.

But when I check in YaST, it shows that I have version 1.4.0.3-1 of libgcrypt installed.

I am using openSUSE 11.0. Thanks for any help.

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I’m running into the same problem on Ubuntu 13.04, except that synaptic shows I already have libgcrypt11 v. 1.5.0-3ubuntu2.1

This seems like a bug to me.

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And why are you writing this in the openSUSE forums?

For compiling stuff yourself you have to have the devel package installed.
On openSUSE this would be libgcrypt-devel. On Ubuntu it’s called libgcrypt11-dev I think…

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On 05/31/2013 06:26 PM, SoManyAccounts wrote:
> I am using openSUSE 11.0

openSUSE 12.1 sailed past its end of life and support in July 2010
(cite: http://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime) and has received
no security patches since…

suggest you move to a currently supported version (today those are
12.2, 12.3 and Evergreen 11.2/11.4
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen)

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dd

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On 05/31/2013 10:34 PM, dd wrote:
> openSUSE 12.1

well, that was supposed to say openSUSE 11.0

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dd