I read about an oppurtunity to compile pidgin from source with video and voice support, so I wanted to try. This is how I proceed: Code: sudo apt-get install build-essential dh-make sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev Installed packages from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian (added to the sources) Code: sudo apt-get install libgstfarsight0.10-0 libgstfarsight0.10-dev gstreamer0.10-plugins-farsight in order to fetch the last revision of pidgin: Code: apt-get install monotone monotone-viz then: Code: DATABASE=/home/user/monotone_databases/pidgin.mtn WORKINGDIR=/home/user/code/pidgin-mtn cd $(dirname $DATABASE) wget http://developer.pidgin.im/static/pidgin.mtn.bz2 bzip2 -d pidgin.mtn.bz2 mtn -d $DATABASE pull --set-default mtn.pidgin.im "im.pidgin.*" I got an error message so: Code: mtn -d $DATABASE db migrate then again: Code: mtn -d $DATABASE pull --set-default mtn.pidgin.im &qu