Patch and collect pidgin at home

The topic is inspired by the release of the patch for the Pidgin IM client. The essence is the same as that of other clients - instead of randomly generated values, numbers from the previously known “correct” options are substituted as the sequence number.

What to do? How to upgrade quickly?

Lazy - download liboscar.so.0.0.0 and put it in / usr / lib / purple-2, having saved it beforehand. Checked with version 2.5.2, should work on 2.5.4. Built for 32-bit architecture.

Not lazy - read on!

1) Open the terminal, download the pidgin sources and the patch from eveel
wget downloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/pidgin-2.5.4.tar.bz2
wgetdeveloper.pidgin.im/raw-attachment/ticket/8198/pidgin-NOT-UPSTREAM-2.5.4-icq-russia.patch
2) Install the packages necessary for the assembly (not all are required, at startup ./configure will offer keys for disabling related capabilities)
sudo aptitude install libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxss-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libgtkspell-dev libxml2-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libmeanwhile-dev libavahi-ui-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev network-manager-dev libperl-dev libgnutls-dev tcl-dev tk-dev gcc make
3) Unpack pidgin-2.5.4.tar.bz2
tar xvfj pidgin-2.5.4.tar.bz2
4) Patch !
patch <pidgin-NOT-UPSTREAM-2.5.4-icq-russia.patch
5) Configure, assemble, install
cd pidgin-2.5.4
./configure --prefix = / opt / && make
sudo make install

Run / opt / bin / pidgin and rejoice :)

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