It's against my religion to install something without apt, but I've given in to temptation. I've downloaded the compressed file, unzipped it to a random directory, then typed "make". make says:

Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found

I think I have gtk; I've got gaim on there. I've tinkered to no avail.