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Steam plugin for Pidgin/libpurple
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Installation instructions for Ubuntu #149

Closed xksteven closed 8 years ago

xksteven commented 8 years ago

Updated Readme to provide Installation instructions for Ubuntu

xvitaly commented 8 years ago

Never use make install on package-based distributions! Build and install DEB-package instead: replace in your manual make install to checkinstall and remove cp to /usr/lib/purple-2/.

xksteven commented 8 years ago

I need to update the install as I built from source. It didn't properly install from the tar file.

I don't really understand why should you not run make install though? Provided you look at the make file and know what it installs I don't really see the problem.

xvitaly commented 8 years ago

I don't really understand why should you not run make install though?

Every file and directory in package-based distributions must be installed via package manager. Using make install ruins whole system and creates untracked files. It will cause you lots of problems on updates/upgrades.

Just replace sudo make install to sudo checkinstall and remove useless row with copying file (checkinstall will do it for you and also create DEB package).