SwitchBL8’s gebazel

Pidgin 2.0.0 has been released (no more beta). Pidgin is the new name for Gaim. Of course, Pidgin is not in the Ubuntu repositories yet, but it’s not difficult to get it working. I’m on Feisty, did a “.configure” as per the installation instructions, and had to retry that a couple of times, in the meantime installing the missing devel-versions of some libraries it complains about. After the configure process is satisfied, don’t “make” yet. Do a “apt-get install libgnutls12” (that’s twelve at the end) because that’s needed for MSN-connections. Do a “.configure” once more. After that a “make” and “make install” should work without a glitch.

Above was done on Feisty, but I guess Edgy will work too.

Judging by the directory date, milestone 9 became available yesterday afternoon. You can get it here. The full version now includes UML modelling, SOA support (BPEL designer a.o.) and Ruby (including JRuby and Rails) support. Now if only Ubuntu’s Apache would have better support for Ruby: the mod_ruby I can install (with aptitude, not by manually building the sources) keeps crashing.

If you live in the area of Rotterdam (NL) and you are looking for a new (almost new) kitchen, please have a look at ours. It was installed in this house by the previous owners that never lived in this house, so the kitchen is as good as new. The oven has not been used, the stove (correct word?) and the dishwasher are as good as new. View my ad on Marktplaats.nl or contact me directly.

When Dutch is not your native tongue, but you are interested anyway, please comment here and I’ll give you the details in English!