<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">1) i686 (or anything x86) is 32bit. <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>x64 is 64bit.</div><div class="">2) Did you try hunting down the right GLIB it’s looking for? I suspect the version for your Mint build is not current or your libraries are askey</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 27, 2014, at 7:53 PM, paul g <<a href="mailto:pj.world@hotmail.com" class="">pj.world@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; text-transform: none; line-height: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Hello, I am trying to install the ----> ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa <----onto my linuxmint maya desktop computer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">I have also tried adding the following repository to my software sources list ----> deb<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu" class="">http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>precise main <br class=""><br class="">{{SNIP SNIP SNIP SNIP}}</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; text-transform: none; line-height: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;" class=""><font face="Courier" class="">checking for GLIB... no</font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><font face="Courier" class="">no<br class="">configure: error:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><font class="">You must have GLib 2.16.0 or newer development headers installed to build.</font><br class=""><br class=""><font class="">If you have these installed already you may need to install pkg-config</font></font><font face="Calibri" style="font-size: 16px;" class=""> so</font><br class=""><font face="Calibri" style="font-size: 16px;" class="">I can find them.</font><br class=""><br class=""><font face="Calibri" style="font-size: 16px;" class="">paul@desk/paul-HP ~/Desktop/pidgin-2.10.11 $</font><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri;"> </span><br class=""><font face="Calibri" style="font-size: 16px;" class="">------------------------</font><br class=""><font face="Calibri" style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Source looks like it's for an i686 pc not 32 bit pc correct?</font><br class=""><br class=""><font face="Calibri" style="font-size: 16px;" class="">For what it may help I compared the permissions and ownership on /etc/apt and folder/files .gnupg across all 3 operating systems and they are identical.</font><br class=""><br class=""><font face="Calibri" style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Thanks you for your time any assistance would be appreciated.</font><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; 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