dh_pidgin command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

dh_pidgin: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dh_pidgin: command not found

Solutions to dh_pidgin: command not found

How To Fix dh_pidgin: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dh_pidgin is provided by pidgin-dev package.

pidgin-dev is:

This package contains the headers and other development files not included in the main pidgin package. Install this if you wish to compile your own plugins.

If you are creating a pidgin plugin package, please be sure to read /usr/share/doc/pidgin-dev/README.Debian.dev after installing pidgin-dev.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install pidgin-dev

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install pidgin-dev.

sudo apt -y install pidgin-dev

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install pidgin-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dh_pidgin command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.