Enabling SILC support in Pidgin under Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
Submitted by specialj on Fri, 2008-04-25 01:53.
Despite my best efforts there is still no graphical SILC client in Ubuntu. I feel I’ve commented on my frustration and disappointment with this fact enough in the past. So, here’s how to get SILC working through Pidgin in Ubuntu 8.04.
- Check your sources list to make sure the universe repository is enabled and that source packages are available.
- Change directories to where you’d like to work.
sudo aptitude updatesudo aptitude install build-essential devscripts fakerootsudo aptitude install libsilc-1.1-2 libsilc-1.1-2-devsudo apt-get build-dep pidginapt-get source pidgincd pidgin-2.4.1/dch -n- I added an item “enable SILC support”.
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot- This will take some time.
cd ..sudo dpkg -i libpurple0_2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1_*.deb
Update
I thought I would add links to the launchpad bug reports requesting the inclusion of SILC support in Pidgin for those who are interested:
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hey.. I have also been pushing for silc support for quite sometime. I am about to run your suggested commands.. however do you have any idea how this will affect pidgin updates? or howto turn updates for pidgin off? I dont want this to botch things during a update later down the road. If you can please hit up my email.. cheers!
Good questions
Yes, any updated version of libpurple0 will undo these changes. This happened once so far during the Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) life-cycle. These commands had to be re-run with the version numbers changed.
Yes, you can do this by updating
/etc/apt/preferencesand adding the following lines (I think, this is untested right now):However, the release in Gutsy was a security release so I found it worthwhile to simply repeat the commands with the newer version to get the security patch. So I’d be careful with turning off the updates.