Error: symbol lookup error after building Pidgin 2.5.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 64bits

[Kevin Stange]

Marcello Sales wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to have the 2.5.1 running on my fresh Ubuntu 8.04 64b 
> running... I followed a post on a forum...
> 
> sudo apt-get install build-essential network-manager-dev
> sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin
> 
> Then, I decompressed the contents, and run
> 
> ./configure -enable-gnutls=yes
> 
> and then
> 
> make && sudo make install
> 
> I'm getting an error while trying to run the compiled version...
> 
> marcello at oahu:~/downloads/pidgin-2.5.1/pidgin$ ./pidgin
> /home/marcello/downloads/pidgin-2.5.1/pidgin/.libs/lt-pidgin: symbol 
> lookup error: 
> /home/marcello/downloads/pidgin-2.5.1/pidgin/.libs/lt-pidgin: undefined 
> symbol: purple_smileys_get_all
> 

Your copy of Pidgin is trying to use the old version of libpurple.  You 
need to uninstall Pidgin and libpurple, then run "sudo ldconfig" and try 
running Pidgin again.

Kevin

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