How to build patch for Pidgin by yourself

As you may know the company AOL has raised the protocol version from ICQ5 to ICQ6 and this caused connection problems for some ICQ clients. In this article I am explaining how to patch your pidgin by yourself.

  • First of all we need to install the following packages: build-essential, fakeroot and devscripts
sudo apt-get install devscripts build-essential fakeroot
  • Download the sources of libpurple0 because we need to patch this library
apt-get source libpurple0
  • Download the patch and get patched the library
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15741199/pidgin-2.4.2-icq.patch
tar xzf pidgin_2.4.1.orig.tar.gz
cd pidgin-2.4.1/
patch -p0 < ../pidgin-2.4.2-icq.patch
  • Set the dependences
sudo apt-get build-dep libpurple0
  • Rebuild the package
debuild -us -uc
  • Install patched package
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i libpurple0_2.4.1-1ubuntu2_i386.deb

You can get an amd version instead of i386 depending of your platform

  • Reload your pidgin and be happy

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