> On Dec 10, 2015, at 13:07, Dan Harkness <dan.harkn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That took care of it. So excited to no longer be reliant on a windows VM to 
> use pidgin with SILC support.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Alexander Hansen 
> <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com <mailto:alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 10, 2015, at 08:34, Dan Harkness <dan.harkn...@gmail.com 
> > <mailto:dan.harkn...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > I had to do /sw/bin/dpkg otherwise I got dpkg: command not found.
> >
> 
> That indicates that you haven’t set up Fink’s environment 
> (/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh to do that).
> 
> > However, using /sw/bin/dpkg I was able to list the contents and indeed 
> > there is /sw/bin/pidgin, and I could run it.
> >
> > However there is a font issue (see below) and the display is illegible.
> >
> > $ /sw/bin/pidgin
> > Couldn't create plugins dir
> >
> > (Pidgin:1335): Pango-CRITICAL **: No modules found:
> > No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found.
> > PangoFc will not work correctly.
> > This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
> >   '/sw/lib/pango-ft219/etc/pango/pango.modules'
> > You should create this file by running:
> >   pango-querymodules > '/sw/lib/pango-ft219/etc/pango/pango.modules'
> >
> > (Pidgin:1335): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly 
> > output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='latin'
> >
> > (Pidgin:1335): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly 
> > output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script=‘common'
> >
> 
> Try “fink install pango1-xft2-ft219”.  That’s what provides pango.modules .  
> Please let us know if that solves the font problem.
> 
> This appears to be a missing runtime dependency.
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Harkness
> dan.harkn...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:dan.harkn...@gmail.com>———————————————————————————————————————

Glad to hear it that.  I’ll cc the maintainer to see about adding a dependency 
on pango1-xft2-ft219, since that doesn’t get brought in when installing from 
binaries.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison

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