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In order to download, compile, and install Pidgin, you may follow this guide!
First, download the source, do this command in a terminal:
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/pidgin-2.4.2.tar.bz2
Next, change to that directory and do "./configure" like this:
cd pidgin*
./configure
Then do:
make
As shown in pidgin make.png
Then do make install:
make install
As shown in pidgin make install.png
Next and finally do
make clean
As shown in pidgin make clean.png

First, you must download the source for Wine, do the following command:
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.0.tar.bz2
As shown on:
winedl.png
Once it is finish, do the following command to decompress it:
bunzip2 -dv wine-1.0.tar.bz2
As shown on:
unzipbz2.png
Next, use tar to unzip it:
tar xvf wine-1.0.tar
As shown on:
unziptar.png
Now, in order to compile anything, you must have a compiler, so we install gcc:
First, there are many ways to do this on many different flavors of linux, the way I do it on "Ubuntu 7.10 - the Gutsy Gibbon - released in October 2007" is either by terminal or synaptic package manager like most linux flavors, you usually have these two ways, but keep in mind there are other ways such as source code. The first way i will go through is by Terminal.
Terminal: