Today, some internet messaging client in my office can not connect to im protocol, we used Pidgin Internet messenger for default IM client, Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time. Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Back to the problem, we try to find the solution and we get the information, it’s same problem with previous case in here. the solution is we must upgrade our pidgin Internet messenger client to the latest version (2.6.1) in Ubuntu packages repositories.
This is the step for upgrade Pidgin in my computer, upgrade instruction from Pidgin Official Website here
Check our ubuntu release and ensure that your ubuntu supported in latest pidgin version
$ uname -a
Linux blackbox 2.6.28-15-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 9 10:49:34 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
add keyserver to our machine
$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8
type this code in terminal to add the source Pidgin repository in /etc/apt/source.list
$ sudo 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
next step is make update the system, by doing apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get update
Another way is using Graphical user interfaces, by press button alt + F2 and then type gksu update-manager
the progress may be little longer, it’s because we get update packages from ppa launchpad, so we must be patient for it. After complete the update, we can installing the newest packages version by Install all update, including Pidgin IM.
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