Tried Compiling Pidgin-2.5.2: Have Questions

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Hello,

I wanted to update from Pidgin-2.4.1 to the latest (I believe… 2.5.2). There was no OpenSUSE 11.0 package for this, so I decided to try and compile it. I’ve never really compiled anything before, but after a few tries and installing lots of development headsers and/or files… the process moved along.

Steps Completed:
Uninstalled Pidgin-2.4.1 before trying to compile (SOftware Managenet/Yast)

Pidgin-2.5.2 Steps:
Unzip - yes
./configure - yes
make - yes

To my knowledge, the make process completed with no visible errors at the end. But I see no Pidgin icon anywhere nor do I see it under Yast as a program which is installed.

So now I am left without Pidgin and unsure of how to use he program that I just compiled. Please help.

But if you do choose to reply, please spell out your explanation and try to explain clearly. It will cut down on the amount of times to reply.

Thank you

OpenSUSE 11.0
Dell XPS Gen.2

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Hi
If you have a search here for pidgin, some users have created rpm’s;
Get It

Since you didn’t run the command “sudo make install” it’s probably not
installed. Having said that there are a lot of addition switches to add
to the configure program otherwise you will end up with the previous
version and the newer version.

Have a read here;
[URLhttp://tinyurl.com/6sy7bo]Help- Building Pidgin From Source

It’s best if you can to either find a src rpm and build from that or
run checkinstall to build an rpm.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.1-default
up 1 day 0:12, 2 users, load average: 0.33, 0.82, 0.46
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80

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I was root when I performed the command ‘make’ .

[edit]

Sorry… I just realised that I forgot to follow up with ‘make install’.

UPDATE: Ok, now there is a Pidgin icon in my Programs. However, when I click on the Pidgin icon, it does not start. :frowning:

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Hi
So did you run make install?

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.1-default
up 1 day 1:32, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.17, 0.23
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80

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You could try getting it here instead of compiling.
The version you want is on page 2

Geoff