Unsolved dependencies for build-dep pidgin
Hi!
Am trying to code a plugin for Pidgin and am following instructions from the pidgin website : http://
sindhu@
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E: Build-dependencies for pidgin could not be satisfied.
sindhu@
What do I do? Is it a must for me to do a apt-get build dep in order to continue/do plugin development for pidgin? I have already installed pidgin-dev, just that building from source (./configure) it's asking me to disable a lot of things and after
./configure --disable-
I can't do anything cause it says I need libidn
What do i do?
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- Status:
- Solved
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- Pidgin Edit question
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- Solved by:
- Sindhu S
- Solved:
- 2009-09-25
- Last query:
- 2009-09-25
- Last reply:
- 2009-09-25
I have the pidgin developers PPA (both binary and source) repos enabled in my sources.list
Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) said : | #2 |
You will haver better luck (and exposure) for your questions if you join the Pidgin developers mailing list:
http://
Never mind, I manually downgraded all packages, it was a bit of a PITA but the issues's resolved. My suggestion to anyone facing this same problem would be:
1. stay away from PPAs! if you are going to development, stick to your release provided packages
2. use apt-show-versions | grep "newer" to check packages that are newer than those found in the archive (in the case that you learnt lesson 1 ^ and removed PPAs to revert back stuff) this will help you find packages you can downgrade
3. apt-get build-dep pidgin -o Debug::
this command is a true live saver, what synaptic doesn't tell you, this command does. read carefully the output from this in case you land into dependency hell doing apt-get build-dep and you should able to figure out what packages you must downgrade.
from personal experience its messy cause you have to remove a bunch (a whole lot!) of them and then reinstall stuff...i cant put it more better than this.
So yeah, good luck! :)