PIdgin 2.7.1

[RoxFox64]

Now, it IS a valid question as to why I'm reposting Pidgin 2.7.1.
The answer to this is that the last post doesn't link you to the Required dependencies.

Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and more chat networks all at once.

Supported chat networks:

* AIM
* Bonjour
* Gadu-Gadu
* Google Talk
* Groupwise
* ICQ
* IRC
* MSN
* MXit
* MySpaceIM
* QQ
* SILC
* SIMPLE
* Sametime
* XMPP
* Yahoo!
* Zephyr

I compiliied it in Puppy 4.3.1. I disabled tk, dbus, & avahi.

If it crashes try leaving the first shown window open. This may just be a secluded problem, but it happened to me even on 2.6.6, compiled by Wolf Pup.

[Pidgin 2.7.1]

[noalternative]

These dependencies wouldn't install. The install froze at " creating menu" even when I attempted to install several times. Then it left an entry in pet get but when I opened pidgin it still said there were dependencies missing. Then the pet wouldn't uninstall.

[Makoto]

Which dependencies does it claim are missing?

I can't remember if I mentioned it in a previous reply (elsewhere) to you, but I should probably also note that Pidgin 2.7.0 and higher have increased requirements for GTK+ and glib:

# Changed GTK+ minimum version requirement to 2.10.0.
# Changed GLib minimum version requirement to 2.12.0.

I don't know if Puppy 4.2.1 meets those minimum requirements, offhand - or whether or not they could be simply packed within a Pidgin .pet.

Just curious - I'm not saying you should upgrade, but is there a reason you don't want to at least upgrade to Puppy 4.3.1? I was with 4.2.1, myself, for quite a while, even after 4.3.1 was released... but one of the reasons I updated was because I couldn't get many .pets that specifically worked with 4.2.1, anymore, including Pidgin. So, it was either figure out how to compile it myself (I actually did have the devx sfs installed, but the instructions for compiling Pidgin did look a little daunting), hope someone posted a 4.2.1 compatible pet, or upgrade. (oops - that makes it sound like it was the only reason I upgraded. )

According to the Pidgin support mailing list (I haven't checked the website), 2.7.3 was just released.

[noalternative]

4,31 won't boot on my computer. I have a bad hard drive and I am booting from a flash drive. 4.31 gets picky about having a working hard drive.

Here are the missing dependencies according to pet-get

These dependencies required by pidgin-2.7.1 package are missing:
File /usr/bin/finch has these missing library files:
libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 libgstfarsight-0.10.so.0 libgstbase-0.10.so.0 libgstinterfaces-0.10.so.0 libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
File /usr/bin/pidgin has these missing library files:
libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 libgtkspell.so.0 libgio-2.0.so.0 libgstfarsight-0.10.so.0 libgstbase-0.10.so.0 libgstinterfaces-0.10.so.0 libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/ticker.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/vvconfig.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0 libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/timestamp_format.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/pidginrc.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/history.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/sendbutton.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/iconaway.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/extplacement.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/xmppdisco.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/themeedit.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/xmppconsole.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/spellchk.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/markerline.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/convcolors.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/gestures.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/timestamp.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/gtkbuddynote.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/pidgin/notify.so has these missing library files:
libgio-2.0.so.0
File /usr/lib/purple-2/libsametime.so has these missing library files:
libmeanwhile.so.1
File /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0.7.1 has these missing library files:
libgstfarsight-0.10.so.0 libgstbase-0.10.so.0 libgstinterfaces-0.10.so.0 libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
File /usr/lib/gnt/s.so has these missing library files:
libgstfarsight-0.10.so.0 libgstbase-0.10.so.0 libgstinterfaces-0.10.so.0 libgstreamer-0.10.so.0

The PETget package manager does not know what package/s has/have these libraries.

[Makoto]

Tried any of the v5 series? (Not that I have... )

I think there are .pet or .pup installers floating around for most of those (gstreamer, gtkspell, meanwhile, farsight, etc.), but I haven't yet found them. Perhaps someone else might have a quick suggestion?

The libgio-2.0.so.0.pet I found here might help with the libgio messages.