Ubuntu pidgin installation commands

1. Uninstall the old version of pidgin.
Sudo apt-Get remove pidgin-data libpurple0

2. Download The Pidgin source code package
Download pidgin 2.4.1.tar.bz2: http://pidgin.im/download/source/

Decompress the package to obtain the pidgin-2.4.1 folder.

3. Check/install the pidgin compiling environment
Sudoapt-Get install GCC Autoconf GDB automake1.9 libgtk2.0-Dev
Libxml2-dev gettext libnss3-dev libnspr4-dev build-essential
Libxml-parser-perl libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libgstreamer0.10-Dev

4. Patch pidgin 2.4.1 to solve the problem of displaying the QQ group name as null.
Download the pidgin-2.3.1-qq.tar.bz2: http://pcfile.cn/25pidgin-2.3.1-qq.tar.bz2 here

Decompress the package to get the pidgin-2.3.1-qq.patch.

Put the patch file in the pidgin-2.4.1 folder and install the patch:
Patch-P1 <pidgin-2.3.1-qq.patch

5. Compile and install pidgin 2.4.1
./Configure
Make
Sudo make install
6. Clean up
Make clean
Make distclean

7. Final Test and supplementary Installation
Start a terminal and run pidgin. If Pidgin is successfully started, the installation ends. If an exception occurs (for example, the system prompts that libpurper. so.0 is missing), open the new software package manager, search for libpurper, and select the file with the corresponding library to install. Installation ends.