Install Pidgin 2.5.7 in fedora 8 or later

Hi all,

I was facing a problem in logging into yahoo through Pidgin since a week, the time yahoo changed something related to its authentication. I found a temporary fix from some site by changing the host. Later noticed that, it is permanently fixed in latest version of Pidgin(2.5.7). But unfortunately it was not available as package for fedora 8 and later, so i had to install it through source.

Being a newbie in linux, it took an around an hour to do it. Hopes it will be helpful for somebody like me to install Pidgin in fedora through source.

Steps

1. Download the source from http://www.pidgin.im/download/source/
2. Go to downloaded directory and unzip it using the command tar -xvjf
3. Install the dependencies required for the source, listed below
   
4. Go inside the untarred folder and type ./configure
   
5. Once the configuration is done without any error, do make using command 'make'
6. Once the make is successfull, install the pidgin using 'make install'
7. Now you are set to login in pidgin.

Install the dependencies for the Pidgin 2.5.7 package as below,

• yum install intltool
• yum install gtkspell-devel
• yum install gstreamer-devel
• yum install meanwhile-devel
• yum install avahi-devel
• yum install avahi-glib-devel
• yum install NetworkManager-devel
• yum install perl-ExtUtils-Embed
• yum install tcl-devel
• yum install tk-devel

Thanks
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