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Simple step to install Pidgin at Ubuntu by compile via source.

1. Download source file from Pidgin download site.
2. There are few packages need to install in order to compile the source. Below is the complete packages I install.

sudo apt-get install gettext libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxml2-dev libnss-dev libnspr-dev libnss3-dev libgnutls-dev

3. Run the configure with below enable else you will encounter error like “SSL support is needed for MSN. Please install a supported SSL library.” when execute pidgin.

./configure –enable-gnutls=yes

4. Next step easy :

make
sudo make install

5. Final step is run Pidgin.