trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

Peter,

i tried another approach. i just read that qq has been merged with the new 
gaim, called pidgin, so i attempted to install pidgin. i was able to 
configure the source but compile died in the 'make'. with the .rpm i got 
a .deb file, which i then did 'dpkg -i' on. e'thing seemed to go normally, 
but after the 'setting up' message, nothing was on the system for pidgin. 
below is the session.

debian:/home/kloro/zips/pidginRH# alien -i pidg*rpm
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.
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warning: pidgin-2.2.0-0.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 
a9464aa9warning: pidgin-2.2.0-0.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key 
ID a9464aa9pidgin_2.2.0-1_i386.deb generated
debian:/home/kloro/zips/pidginRH#
debian:/home/kloro/zips/pidginRH# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 kloro kloro 8129041 2007-09-25 10:48 pidgin-2.2.0-0.src.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  8103764 2007-09-25 10:51 pidgin_2.2.0-1_i386.deb
debian:/home/kloro/zips/pidginRH# dpkg -i *deb
(Reading database ... 201138 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace pidgin 2.2.0-1 (using pidgin_2.2.0-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement pidgin ...
Setting up pidgin (2.2.0-1) ...
debian:/home/kloro/zips/pidginRH# exit
exit
kloro@debian:~/zips/pidginRH$ pidgin
bash: pidgin: command not found

i've looked e'where on the system but find nothing resembling an executable 
for pidgin.

thanks,

tom arnall