I am running Pidgin 2.5.5 in ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix. It simply says 'connecting" but fails to connect to yahoo.ca chat.
I did as per the instructions HERE:http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/:
To setup the PPA, copy-and-paste these commands into a terminal:
Once this PPA is setup, 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.
When I launched the update manager, it did show availabie updates for pidgin and libpurple.
After updating, and rebooting the system, "About" now indicates:
Pidgin 2.5.7
(libpurple 2.5.7)
Now I get {<email address hidden>} disabled
Unknown error number 1013. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this.
I can login to my account using Firefox (ver.3.0.11), but no success with Pidgin.
I am running Pidgin 2.5.5 in ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix. It simply says 'connecting" but fails to connect to yahoo.ca chat. www.pidgin. im/download/ ubuntu/:
I did as per the instructions HERE:http://
To setup the PPA, copy-and-paste these commands into a terminal:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver. ubuntu. com \ 67265eb522bdd6b 1c69e66ed7fb8be e0a1f196a8
echo deb http:// ppa.launchpad. net/pidgin- developers/ ppa/ubuntu \ `lsb_release --short --codename` main | \ sources. list.d/ pidgin- ppa.list
sudo tee /etc/apt/
Once this PPA is setup, 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.
When I launched the update manager, it did show availabie updates for pidgin and libpurple.
After updating, and rebooting the system, "About" now indicates:
Pidgin 2.5.7
(libpurple 2.5.7)
Now I get {<email address hidden>} disabled
Unknown error number 1013. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this.
I can login to my account using Firefox (ver.3.0.11), but no success with Pidgin.