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Pidgin and OpenSuSE 10.2

You`ve compiled Pidgin 2.3 using:

$ ./configure –enable-gnutls=yes
$ make
# make install

You type `pidgin` in the console and get an annoying error:

“pidgin: error while loading shared libraries: libpurple.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”

Fix: “Create” libpurple.so.0 in /usr/lib:

#ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpurple.so.0 /usr/lib/

Enjoy!!

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