Comments on: Pidgin, purple-remote, and solving the “No existing libpurple instance detected” error http://earlruby.org/2009/11/pidgin-purple-remote-and-solving-the-no-existing-libpurple-instance-detected-error/ this must be the place Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:09:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Henry Grebler http://earlruby.org/2009/11/pidgin-purple-remote-and-solving-the-no-existing-libpurple-instance-detected-error/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Henry Grebler Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:28:55 +0000 http://earlruby.org/?p=120#comment-427 I thought I might add the following for completeness. I have searched high and low for a solution to the problem mentioned in your headline. In my case, something else was needed. I have not been long in my new job. I inherited a CentOS release 5.3 for my desktop. It turned out that there was no dbus-launch on my system. This page proved very helpful: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/DbusHowto It led me to try pidgin -d which generates heaps of output. It confirmed that dbus: Failed to get connection: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session After a little more research, I ran: yum install dbus-x11.x86_64 and now I get: purple-remote getstatus available instead of purple-remote getstatus No existing libpurple instance detected. YMMV. I thought I might add the following for completeness. I have searched high and low for a solution to the problem mentioned in your headline. In my case, something else was needed.

I have not been long in my new job. I inherited a CentOS release 5.3 for my desktop.

It turned out that there was no dbus-launch on my system. This page proved very helpful: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/DbusHowto

It led me to try

pidgin -d

which generates heaps of output. It confirmed that

dbus: Failed to get connection: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session

After a little more research, I ran:

yum install dbus-x11.x86_64

and now I get:

purple-remote getstatus
available

instead of

purple-remote getstatus
No existing libpurple instance detected.

YMMV.

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