[adanedhel728]

I enter in the command shell "./configure" but it returns this error--

"checking for XML::Parser...
configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool"

I looked up "Parser perl module" in google but couldn't really find anything.

[lotuseclat79]

What is Pidgen and where did you download it from?

-- Tom

[InterKnight]

I think the OP may have meant "Pidgin", which is the new name for the Gaim Multi-protocol Instant Messenger client. I may be wrong...

adanedhel728: if you are using Ubuntu, you can download a .deb package fo the latest version of Pidgin (v2.1.1) here.

Hope this helps.

Take care.

[soten]

What linux distro are you using?

[adanedhel728]

Yes, I meant Pidgin, sorry about that. I got it at Linux.org/apps

I'm using SimplyMEPIS, because it's the only one that I could get to work.

Thanks for that link, Knight, but it gave me a different error while unpacking it this time--

<esktop/pidgin_2.1.1-1~getdeb1_amd64.deb' ;echo RESULT=$?
Selecting previously deselected package pidgin.
(Reading database ... 72196 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking pidgin (from .../pidgin_2.1.1-1~getdeb1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pidgin:
pidgin depends on pidgin-data (>= 1:2.1.1); however:
Package pidgin-data is not installed.
pidgin depends on pidgin-data (<< 1:2.1.1-z); however:
Package pidgin-data is not installed.
pidgin depends on libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.13.1); however:
Version of libatk1.0-0 on system is 1.11.4-0ubuntu1.
pidgin depends on libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.13); however:
Version of libavahi-client3 on system is 0.6.10-0ubuntu3.4.
pidgin depends on libavahi-glib1 (>= 0.6.12); however:
Package libavahi-glib1 is not installed.
pidgin depends on libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6-0ubuntu20.5.
pidgin depends on libcairo2 (>= 1.4.2); however:
Version of libcairo2 on system is 1.2.4-2mepis1.
pidgin depends on libdbus-1-3 (>= 0.94); however:
Package libdbus-1-3 is not installed.
pidgin depends on libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.73); however:
Version of libdbus-glib-1-2 on system is 0.60-6ubuntu8.1.
pidgin depends on libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0); however:
Version of libfontconfig1 on system is 2.3.2-1.1ubuntu12.
pidgin depends on libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.9); however:
Version of libglib2.0-0 on system is 2.10.3-0ubuntu1.
pidgin depends on libgnutls13 (>= 1.4.0-0); however:
Package libgnutls13 is not installed.
pidgin depends on libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.12); however:
Version of libgstreamer0.10-0 on system is 0.10.6-0ubuntu2.
pidgin depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.3); however:
Version of libgtk2.0-0 on system is 2.8.20-0ubuntu1.1.
pidgin depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.16.2); however:
Version of libpango1.0-0 on system is 1.12.3-0ubuntu3.
pidgin depends on libperl5.8 (>= 5.8.8); however:
Version of libperl5.8 on system is 5.8.7-10ubuntu1.
pidgin depends on libsasl2-2; however:
Package libsasl2-2 is not installed.
pidgin depends on libsilc-1.0-2; however:
Package libsilc-1.0-2 is not installed.
pidgin depends on libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1); however:
Version of libxfixes3 on system is 1:3.0.1.2-0ubuntu3.
pidgin depends on libxml2 (>= 2.6.27); however:
Version of libxml2 on system is 2.6.24.dfsg-1ubuntu1.
pidgin depends on libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0); however:
Version of libxrandr2 on system is 1:1.1.0.2-0ubuntu4.
dpkg: error processing pidgin (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
pidgin
RESULT=1

There is a very good chance that this will sound stupid, but could it be that the problems I'm having (and I've posted many on this board) is based on having an old kernel? I just got what I found on SimplyMEPIS's website, and I really don't understand most of what's going on.

[adanedhel728]

Ok, I just found another program that was installed with SimplyMEPIS that does everything I wanted Pidgin to do. Thanks for the help, though!