Pidgin

[Daniel Atallah]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 08:39, Glenn McMillan <glenns at woosh.co.nz> wrote:
> Hey There,
>
> I am using Ubuntu 10.04 along with Pidgin Instant Messenger v 2.6.6. I have
> been to the website to see if there is a newer version of the linux release
> (as I have just installed Pidgin onto a windows machine for my partner and
> noticed the release was a later version).
>
> Now, I am a little bit newbie when it comes to Linux, so im not exactly sure
> how to upgrade the version I have after downloading the *.tar.bz2 file from
> the website. I have extracted it into my Downloads directory but after
> running a './configure --disable-gtkui' I am getting the following error:
>
> configure: error:
> You must have libxml2 >= 2.6.0 development headers installed to build.
>
> I am not sure what libxml2 is but is there a debian download for this
> release of Pidgin at all?

See http://pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/

-D