cannot add buddies

[hans]

Binary package hint: pidgin

After opening buddie list I use the ADD button to fill in new buddies. However, none of them are added.
I also first created a group. Try to add them to the group. Does not work either.

I have tried to add the name with and without [@yahoo.com] or even use the alias. Nothing works

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 19 09:41:51 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686

[hans (hans-groen)]

problem resolved:
Answer obtained from: http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/
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Ubuntu ships Pidgin but does not update it after a release (except for security issues and high-severity bugs). For those users who desire new releases of Pidgin, we have packaged Pidgin in a PPA. If you encounter problems with these packages, try building from source and report the bug.

To setup the PPA, copy-and-paste these commands into a terminal:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \ `lsb_release --short --codename` main | \
    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list

After doing this, open Update Manager, check for updates, and then install the newly available Pidgin packages.

Future Pidgin updates will show up in Update Manager along with the usual Ubuntu updates. The PPA will need to be re-setup only after upgrading Ubuntu.

This PPA is maintained by one developer, so please be patient. It often lags behind the source releases a couple of days.
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After update, the renewed pidgin showed all his functions and allowed to add buddies etc.

thnks for the ehlp

[hans (hans-groen)]

Pedro

You could close this bug on my behalf. I switched to Amsn.

regards
hans

Op 25-08-10 17:58, Pedro Villavicencio schreef:
> ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Triaged
>
> ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
>

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Going by how the events unfolded and that the OP can no longer help us reproduce it, I think it's safe to assume this was fixed in one of the releases after hardy. Setting to fix released.