Having had some issues with the current version of the Pidgin Plugin Pack available from the Ubuntu repositories I decided to give the latest source a try.

I ran into the following error while trying to get do the make

switchspell.c:43:31: error: gtkspell/gtkspell.h: No such file or directory

switchspell.c: In function ‘menu_conv_use_dict_cb’:

switchspell.c:77: error: ‘GtkSpell’ undeclared (first use in this function)

switchspell.c:77: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

switchspell.c:77: error: for each function it appears in.)

switchspell.c:77: error: ‘spell’ undeclared (first use in this function)

switchspell.c:87: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘gtkspell_get_from_text_view’

switchspell.c:89: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘gtkspell_set_language’

make[2]: *** [switchspell.lo] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nathan/Downloads/purple-plugin_pack-2.4.0/switchspell’

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nathan/Downloads/purple-plugin_pack-2.4.0′

make: *** [all] Error 2

The solution is quite simple, make sure you have libgtkspell0 and libgtkspell-dev installed and then execute the following commands

sudo mkdir /usr/include/pidgin/gtkspell

sudo ln -s /usr/include/gtkspell-2.0/gtkspell/gtkspell.h /usr/include/pidgin/gtkspell/gtkspell.h

Now the make should finnish properly (assuming you have all the required deps installed).

Linux, Troubleshooting, Ubuntu

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