Problems building Gajim from source, installing and running it - Gajim-devel

11 Jun 2017


      Hello,
some days ago, although I am fairly satisfied with my current XMPP 
client, Pidgin, I decided to try Gajim. It seems to be more close to use 
all the features that XMPP can offer.
There is something a bit unusual - although not a problem, just for what 
it is. The machine I use most is old, and has Ubuntu 10.04 in it. It 
runs fine, with all the programs I need and like and with a good 
performance. Great.
I am not too familiar with building processes, although I have done 
several of them (since and along years ago).
My current problem is that Gajim complains that it needs PyGTK 2.22+ to 
run. But I have PyGTK 2.24.0 installed!
The full story of my process of getting the Gajim source, installing 
and/or compiling and installing dependencies is detailed in a 
LinuxQuestions' thread. I will give you the thread address, but I will 
also summarize the important parts (for this discussion) right after:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/installing-needed-d...
1. Downloaded Gajim 0.16.7 tarball: 
https://gajim.org/downloads.php?lang=en#source
2. Discovered dependency: installed python-nbxmpp ( 
https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/python-nbxmpp/ ) from source. A few more 
packages were installed through Synaptic (details in post #1).
3. To install PyGTK 2.24.0 ( 
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.24/ ), pygobject >= 
2.21.3 was needed, tar.bz of 2.21.3 here: 
https://launchpad.net/pygobject/+milestone/2.21.3
4. PyGTK reported, before building:
==
The following modules will be built:
atk
pango
The following modules will NOT be built:
pangocairo
gtk
gtk.glade
gtk.unixprint
Numpy support: no
==
4.1. What should I do to build those in the "NOT" section? Are they used 
by Gajim?
4.2. PyGTK installer reported (full report on thread page 2, post #21):
Libraries have been installed in:
    /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0
5. PyGTK 2.24.0 is installed. Gajim still does not work, saying that it 
needs PyGTK 2.22+. What to do?
6. Someone said that "Gajim requires: pycrypto, pyOpenSSL, 
python-nbxmpp". I have not found this written in any Gajim file I 
downloaded. Does my build of Gajim includes support for security features?
I will be waiting for comments or (in the best possibility) the solution 
for my problem,
Dedeco