Pidgin 2.10.9 --- How to install Pidgin-Sipe 1.20.0 through source package on Ubuntu/Lubuntu 14.04

If we want to connect to the company's Lync server using Pidgin, we have to install a SIPE plugin because it can connect to a Lync server next to do text chat.

When the "pidgin" package is installed from the distribution repository,  we will download the latest package as version 1.20.2 from SIPE repository and extract it next to prepare for compiling SIPE from source code.

Due to we want to compile Pidgin-Sipe from source code, we will specify the correct installation path in configure. Usually Pidgin-SIPE is installed in /usr so the following command should work

./configure --prefix=/usr

If we get errors(# 1) then there is missing some required package(# 2), we need to install the necessary libraries until the the configure procedure is successful.

When the configure complete, we will continue to run ‘make’ now.

After successful compilation we can install SIPE with ‘sudo make install’ now

So do that the Pidgin plugin for MS Office Communicator and MS Lync will be installed now.  

Reference:

(# 1)     If we get errors from configure or libtool about version conflicts then we need to regenerate the autoconf files. 

That is need these additional packages

autoconf

automake

Now we should be able to regenerate the files with “autoreconf --verbose --install --force” and go back to the configure step again.

(# 2)     In the README file of the extracted SIPE, we can refer to what is requried pacakge as follow:

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Depending on your distribution you'll need to install one of the following packages

libpurple-dev

libpurple-devel

For the compilation you'll need to install a C compiler and some of the following packages

libtool

intltool

pkg-config

libglib2.0-dev

libxml2-dev

libgmime-2.4-dev  (optional)

libgmime-2.6-dev  (optional)

pkgconfig

libglib2-devel

libxml2-devel

gettext-devel

gmime-devel       (optional)

You have to choose between NSS or OpenSSL for the crypto backend. You'll need one of the following packages

for NSS:

libnss3-dev

nss-devel

mozilla-nss-devel

for OpenSSL:

libssl-dev

openssl-devel

If you want to enable Kerberos authentication support then you'll need one of the following packages

libkrb5-dev

krb5-devel

If you additionally want to disable the internal NTLM implementation and authenticate with NTLM via GSSAPI then you'll need one of the following packages

gssntlmssp-devel

If you want to enable Voice & Video features then you'll need some of the following packages

libnice-dev           (>= 0.1.0)

libgstreamer0.10-dev

libnice-devel         (>= 0.1.0)

gstreamer-devel

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