Pidgin not available after upgrade & partial upgrade only

[MartasPD]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Ubuntu 8.04
After one of the partial upgrades pidgin not visible, seem uninstalled.
checked Add & remove programs & seems not installed.
tryed to install, but got an error - Cannot install 'pidgin'
This application conflicts with other installed software. To install 'pidgin' the conflicting software must be removed first.
Switch to the 'synaptic' package manager to resolve this conflict.

Synaptic does not really make me more clever, shows marked nautilus-sendto & pidgin data. rest is unmarked.

Do I still have the previous pidgin history?
Cannot find Nautilus - is that a problem?

Recent upgrades were partial only. Can that be fixed??

[azteech (stevep.)]

Attempting to overcome pidgin partial install issue, using Synaptic, receive "Could not mark all packages for installation or upgrade. The following packages have unresolved dependencies. Make sure that all required repositories are added and enabled in the preferences."
In the error screen it lists:

pidgin:
 Depends: libpurple0 but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: pidgin-data (<1:2.5.0-z) but 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1~hardy1 is to be installed

[azteech (stevep.)]

libpurple0 can't be installed because of the pidgin-data dependency issue. To resolve this I know pidgin-data needs to be resolved.

Does this part of error message "Depends: pidgin-data (<1:2.5.0-z) but 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1~hardy1 is to be installed" mean that pidgin-data, version 1:2.5.0-z, remains installed and that it needs to be removed 1st, before it can install the 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1~hardy1 version can be installed?

If this is the case, then it would appear the installer is truly at fault since it failed to remove the appropriate 1:2.5.0-z file before attempting to upgrade.

[azteech (stevep.)]

My problem has been resolved by the following:

1. Use apt-get to remove "pidgin-data" package
2. In "System>Administration>Software Sources>Updates disable the backports repo by removing the checkmark
3. Adding the following ppa to the list in "System>Administration>Software Sources>Third-Party Software"

                 deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/andreas-moog/ubuntu hardy main
                 deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/andreas-moog/ubuntu hardy main

4. Close the Software Sources screen
5. Run "sudo apt-get install pidgin" to re-install Pidgin.

It would appear that doing this does not affect one's configs/profile. Found I could still get to my saved logs, and all subscribed channels were still in place.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue seem to be due to unofficial versions and not an ubuntu bug

[kenorb (kenorb)]

It will be fixed, or what?
I've got exactly the same problem.

<code>
root@NS8210H:~# cat /etc/*-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04"

root@NS8210H:~# sudo apt-get install pidgin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  pidgin: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0) but 2.16.1-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
          Depends: libpurple0 (>= 1:2.6.1) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.10) but 0.9-1 is to be installed
          Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-24ubuntu4) but 5.10.0-19ubuntu1.1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
</code>
#5 doesn't solve my issue.