[Question #42556]: how to install purple plug in pack in pidgin 2.4.1

[mahmoud]

Question #42556 on pidgin in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+question/42556

    Status: Solved => Open

mahmoud is still having a problem:
sorry the error is on the second part in step 2:
tar zxvf talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
cd talkfilters-2.3.7
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install


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mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~$ Code:
bash: Code:: command not found
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~$ cd ~
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~$ mkdir pidgin
mkdir: cannot create directory `pidgin': File exists
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~$ cd pidgin
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ wget http://downloads.guifications.org/plugins//Plugin%20Pack/purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0.tar.gz
--21:25:18--  http://downloads.guifications.org/plugins//Plugin%20Pack/purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0.tar.gz
           => `purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0.tar.gz.2'
Resolving downloads.guifications.org... 208.100.2.214
Connecting to downloads.guifications.org|208.100.2.214|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 893,135 (872K) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 893,135       48.37K/s
ETA 00:00

21:25:39 (43.26 KB/s) - `purple-plugin_pack-2.3.0.tar.gz.2' saved
[893135/893135]

mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ sudo aptitude install gettext libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev libgtkspell-dev libgpg-error-dev libgcrypt11-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done      
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done      
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ wget http://freshmeat.net/redir/talkfilters/37168/url_tgz/talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
--21:26:05--  http://freshmeat.net/redir/talkfilters/37168/url_tgz/talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
           => `talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz'
Resolving freshmeat.net... 216.34.181.101
Connecting to freshmeat.net|216.34.181.101|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://www.hyperrealm.com/talkfilters/talkfilters-2.3.8.tar.gz [following]
--21:26:06--  http://www.hyperrealm.com/talkfilters/talkfilters-2.3.8.tar.gz
           => `talkfilters-2.3.8.tar.gz'
Resolving www.hyperrealm.com... 66.96.130.23
Connecting to www.hyperrealm.com|66.96.130.23|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 821,338 (802K) [application/x-tar]

100%[====================================>] 821,338       42.53K/s
ETA 00:00

21:26:29 (36.76 KB/s) - `talkfilters-2.3.8.tar.gz' saved [821338/821338]

mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ 
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ 
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ tar zxvf talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz
tar: talkfilters-2.3.7.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ cd talkfilters-2.3.7
bash: cd: talkfilters-2.3.7: No such file or directory
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
mahmoud at mahmoud-laptop:~/pidgin$ 

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