compiling Pidgin on Debian Lenny

[Brian Marshall]

On 04/11/2010 02:28 AM, Stefan Naums wrote:
> Hello there.
> 
> I'm using Debian 5.01 Lenny and I wanna use the newest version of
> pidgin. In Lenny's software sources is just 2.4.3. How do I compile the
> newest version of Pidgin (2.6.6). All dependencies, which I could
> download the way it is mentioned on the homepage are the old ones
> (2.4.3) How can I get the dependencies of 2.6.6?
> 
> Looking forward to receive an answer of you.
> 
> Stefan Naumann

You can use backports instead of compiling: http://www.backports.org/

It has Pidgin 2.6.6 for lenny.

Brian