Thanks for the quick reply. I don't think I extracted as root. To extract, I ran:
tar -xjvf pidgin_2.10.3.orig.tar.bz2 The only things I did as root were: sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin sudo apt-get source pidgin Clearly I did use a package management system (apt-get). So how can I fix this? On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Ethan Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Bau spake unto us the following wisdom: > > I am trying to build Pidgin from the source and when I run ./configure, I > > get the following errors: > > > > ./configure: line 2672: config.log: Permission denied > > ./configure: line 2682: config.log: Permission denied > > > > Google hasn't been very helpful in solving the issue. If I should post > this > > in the developers list, my apologies. > > This means you extracted your source directory to somewhere you cannot > write to. If you extracted it as root, that's why. If you installed > it using a package management system, there may be a group you need to > belong to to build it. > > Ethan >
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