Gaim has a new name, Pidgin! Not just a new name, they also have a new look for their website, a new project URL (www.pidgin.im), a new mascot and many features.

Install Pidgin In Ubuntu

1. First step is to get pidgin source code, in your terminal

wget http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=235&filename=pidgin-2.0.0.tar.bz2

2. Then, install required development package.

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libcairo2-dev libatk1.0-dev libpango1.0-dev

3. Extract the *.tar.gz

tar xvf pidgin-2.0.0.tar.bz2
cd pidgin-2.0.0/

4. After that, configure and built it

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

That’s it! You can start pidgin by typing pidgin. Here is how it will looks like.

UPDATED (5:01am) - A typo. Prefix is /usr not /usr/bin, thanks to darkchild.

Posted on May 6th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Open Source, Ubuntu