Make & Gaim Plugin: gaim-rhythmbox

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 03:25:17 -0500
Hakim Singhji <hzs202 at nyu.edu> wrote:

[big snips]

> checking for gaim... configure: error: Package requirements (gaim >=
> 0.79) were not met.

peter at prospero:~ $ apt-cache search gaim | grep dev
gaim-dev - multi-protocol instant messaging client - development files

I would guess you need to install gaim-dev.

Almost always, these errors in ./configure mean you are missing a *dev*
package.

By the way, sudo is not required for  ./configure, or "make" - only for
"make install". Another hint - install the "checkinstall" utility, and run
"sudo checkinstall" instead of "make install" - this utility will make
a.deb package for you so that the packageing system will know what you
have installed, and you can easily uninstall it using apt.

Peter

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