Pidgin

Pidgin is chatting software for Linux. It features as well instant messaging as instant relay chat.

Get it

To install Pidgin, find out your distribution and proceed accordingly:

SLES

This description has worked for SLES 11 on 2011-05-02.

• Download Pidgin from here
• install some dependencies
  • intltool
    • get it

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/intltool/0.35/intltool-0.35.5.tar.bz2

• • • unpack it

bunzip2 intltool-0.35.5.tar.bz2
tar xvf intltool-0.35.5.tar

• • • install it

cd intltool-0.35.5/
./configure && make -j8 && make install

• • from yast

yast -i libxml2-devel libidn-devel meanwhile-devel libavahi-devel dbus-1-glib-devel NetworkManager-devel libgnutls-devel \
tcl-devel tk-devel

• • also install all avahi libs that you see fit
• unzip Pidgin

bunzip2 pidgin-2.7.11.tar.bz2
tar xvf pidgin-2.7.11.tar

• install Pidgin

cd pidgin-2.7.11/
./configure --disable-vv && make -j8 && make install

• for running, you will need libpurple, so do a

yast -i libpurple

Plugins

To compile plugins you may need libpurple-devel.