Installing Pidgin on OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris by default doesn’t come with Internet Messaging (IM) installed, and that includes my favorite Internet Messaging client Pidgin. So here’s how to install Pidgin yourself:
1. Download the latest version of the Pidgin source from here, the latest version as of this writing is Pidgin 2.6.3 which you can download from here .
2. Decompress the downloaded Pidgin source and change directory to the decompressed pidgin source
bunzip2 pidgin-2.6.3.tar.bz2
tar -vxf pidgin-2.6.3.tar
cd pidgin-2.6.3
3. Now let’s run the configure script with the video and voice features disabled.
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gtkspell --disable-perl --disable-meanwhile --disable-nm --disable-vv --disable-gtkui MAKE=gmake
4. When configure is finished, it’s time to compile the Pidgin source.
gmake
5. Finally, if the compilation went fine then it’s time to install the Pidgin IM.
gmake install
If everything went fine, you should have the Pidgin shortcut under the Applications - Internet.
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1 Comment on Installing Pidgin on OpenSolaris »
Kevin Reinholz @ 2:11 am:
Is there something wrong with the SUNWgnome-im-client package available through IPS? The current version in the dev repository is Pidgin-2.6.3. (Sadly, vv is disabled–hopefully it’ll be enabled by the OpenSolaris 2010.04 release).
Yes I know it would be easier for GNU/Linux and *BSD converts to OpenSolaris if they’d just call the package Pidgin, but I’ve found it’s useful to do a search for your favorite packages here for the OpenSolaris release version or here for the bleeding edge versions. Usually typing in the name of the package on GNU/Linux will direct you to the Sun-named version in IPS.