Problem with upgrading to 2.10.0 from 2.9.0

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi,

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:31:48 -0400
"we are the JOE" <purple-dissyness at snkmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> > So I got tired of waiting for the ubuntu PPA for pidgin to be updated
> > from 2.9.0 to 2.10.0 (advertised as being behind a couple days --
> > more like a couple weeks at this point) and decided to compile from
> > source. (Running ubuntu 10.04)... After installing a dozen or more
> > prerequisite packages as ./configure demanded them one at a time, i
> > got make && sudo make install to run without any fatal errors.
> > 
> > However, when running Pidgin now, About displays version 2.10.0, but
> > libpurple version 2.9.0, and a number of included plugins which have
> > their version listed as 2.10.0 will not run as a result -- a number of
> > which I was actually using...
> > 
> 
> 
> Fixed my own problem.  If you're having the same problem and have the
> same system setup, try this:
> sudo cp /usr/local/lib/libpurple* /usr/lib
> 

It is generally a bad idea to temper with the files directly under /usr/lib,
because these are managed by the package manager. Instead, you could set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH or something like that, and/or install pidgin using «./configure
--prefix=/opt/pidgin» (a path of its own).

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> [ You will have to re-enable any plugins that were disabled, but their
> settings should be intact. ]
> 
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