Build Pidgin from Source

[Mark Doliner]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Dharmesh Bhatt
<dharmesh.bhatt2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know if the instructions on the wiki to build Pidgin from source
> for Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty) work for Lucid? I tried the command
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin
>
> and was met with a list of unmet dependencies for the build dep itself. Does
> the procedure using libnss3-dev work? If not, what would be the best way to
> go here?

I would mostly expect the instructions on the wiki[1] to work.  What
error are you getting exactly?

--Mark

[1] http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Installing%20Pidgin#HowdoIinstallthedependenciesonDebianorUbuntu