Compiling Error!

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Hi Guys
i am facing this error quite some times..

I do  ./configure works gr8
make  :got error
sudo make install again error

Here is the error output

shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~$ cd /home/shashwat/Desktop/pidgin-2.3.1
shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~/Desktop/pidgin-2.3.1$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl.exe... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking for g77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for f77... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for cf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for f90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for pghpf... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking for g95... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for ifort... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for ftn... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether  accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking for iconv... /usr/bin/iconv
checking for msgfmt... msgfmt
checking for msgmerge... msgmerge
checking for xgettext... xgettext
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking libintl.h usability... yes
checking libintl.h presence... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for ngettext in libc... yes
checking for dgettext in libc... yes
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
checking for msgfmt... no
configure: error:

 The msgfmt command is required to build libpurple.  If it is installed
on your system, ensure that it is in your path.  If it is not, install
GNU gettext to continue.

If you have msgfmt installed, but for some reason this error message
is still displayed, you have encountered what appears to be a bug in
third-party configure macros.  Try setting the MSGFMT environment
variable to the absolute path to your msgfmt binary and trying
configure again, like this:

MSGFMT=/path/to/msgfmt ./configure ...

shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~/Desktop/pidgin-2.3.1$ make check
make: *** No rule to make target `check'.  Stop.
shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~/Desktop/pidgin-2.3.1$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~/Desktop/pidgin-2.3.1$ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.

I did make check becoz it was preent in the Install file wat is this error abt

[praka123]

do a "sudo apt-get install gettext"
and go into source directory run "make clean" and try ./configure again
.
.

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shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~$ cd /home/shashwat/Desktop/pidgin-2.3.1
shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~/Desktop/pidgin-2.3.1$ make clean
make: *** No rule to make target `clean'.  Stop.
shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~/Desktop/pidgin-2.3.1$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl.exe... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking for g77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for f77... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for cf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for f90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for pghpf... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking for g95... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for ifort... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for ftn... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether  accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking for iconv... /usr/bin/iconv
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking libintl.h usability... yes
checking libintl.h presence... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for ngettext in libc... yes
checking for dgettext in libc... yes
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for catalogs to be installed...  af am ar az be@latin bg bn bs ca ca@valencia cs da de dz el en_AU en_CA en_GB eo es et eu fa fi fr gl gu he hi hu id it ja ka kn ko ku lo lt mk my_MM nb ne nl nn pa pl pt_BR pt ps ro ru sk sl sq sr sr@latin sv ta te th tr uk ur vi xh zh_CN zh_HK zh_TW
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking arpa/nameser_compat.h usability... yes
checking arpa/nameser_compat.h presence... yes
checking for arpa/nameser_compat.h... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for locale.h... (cached) yes
checking signal.h usability... yes
checking signal.h presence... yes
checking for signal.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking regex.h usability... yes
checking regex.h presence... yes
checking for regex.h... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for time_t... yes
checking size of time_t... 4
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for strftime... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strstr... yes
checking for atexit... yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for getopt_long... yes
checking for inet_aton... yes
checking for __res_query in -lresolv... yes
checking for gethostent in -lnsl... yes
checking for socket... yes
checking for getaddrinfo... yes
checking for socklen_t... yes
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for dlopen... no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking for fileno()... yes
checking for the %z format string in strftime()... yes
checking for GLIB... no
no
configure: error:

You must have the GLib 2.0 development headers installed to build.

If you have these installed already you may need to install pkg-config so
I can find them.

shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~/Desktop/pidgin-2.3.1$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~/Desktop/pidgin-2.3.1$ sudo make install
[sudo] password for shashwat:
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.

I did have pkg-confi installed = here is the output

shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install pkg-config
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
pkg-config is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libglade2-ruby1.8 libgconf2-ruby python-pymad libatk1-ruby1.8 libglade2-ruby
  ruby1.8 ruby libgconf2-ruby1.8 libglib2-ruby1.8 libcairo-ruby1.8
  libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby1.8 libgtk2-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 libpango1-ruby1.8
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
shashwat@shashwat-desktop:~$

Whats the problem ?

[praka123]

u have to :"sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev"
do a "sudo apt-get autoremove --purge" -these are unwanted pkgs.

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^^ Hey can you tell me how to use adesklets/ I installed it cannot find any way to use it.. no launcher either no cp open when I tried to open it via ALT+F2 or Terminal Baah another error

configure: error:

You must have the GTK+ 2.0 development headers installed to compile Pidgin.
If you want to build only Finch then specify --disable-gtkui when running configure.

[praka123]

hehehe! enjoy source compiling! for now:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

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^^ Gosh you know each and every command out there any idea abut adesklets

[praka123]

BTW,pidgin 2.3 is what i use in my debian sid 8)
wait for a day or two and u have official packages hitting ur repositories and u can install it via apt.
adesklets i am not aware of desktop decoration thingies.if u have installed adesklets from apt or synaptic,then below command will show u what are all bundled in adesklets.use the /bin or any bin/executable listed for launch.

sudo dpkg --listfiles adesklets

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One more error

 You must have libxml2 >= 2.6.0 development headers installed to build.

How much more to come

[praka123]

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

^nothing much-just see the error msg and download install the particular "packagename-dev"