Pidgin este unul din cele mai vechi si bune instant messengere pentru Linux (urmas al vechiului GAIM). Din pacate ultima versiune care exista in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10, actuala versiune stable de Ubuntu, are cateva buguri deranjante, din care eu am simtit cel mai tare faptul ca unele mesaje nu ajung la destinatie, fara ca senderul sa stie de asta, problema generand discutii interesante intre participantii la conversatie 🙂
Utima versiune stable de Pidgin in Ubuntu este 2.6.2 dar ultima oficiala stable este 2.6.6. Pentru upgradeul la 2.6.6 puteti urma acesti pasi:
### adaugarea repository-ului pidgin host# sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8 Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com  67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8 gpg: requesting key A1F196A8 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: key A1F196A8: public key "Launchpad PPA for Pidgin Developers" imported gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg:              imported: 1 (RSA: 1) host# 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 deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu  karmic main ### update package tree host# apt-get update
Hit http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release.gpg [... output ommited ...] Fetched 69.3kB in 0s (144kB/s) Reading package lists... Done
### instalare piding (+ dependente)
host# apt-get install pidgin
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree      Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:  pidgin-libnotify libindicate-gtk1 libindicate3 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed:  finch pidgin-data Suggested packages:  evolution-data-server The following packages will be upgraded:  finch pidgin pidgin-data 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded. Need to get 8760kB of archives. After this operation, 2494kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main pidgin 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu3~pidgin2.09.10 [577kB] Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main finch 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu3~pidgin2.09.10 [224kB] Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main pidgin-data 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu3~pidgin2.09.10 [7959kB] Fetched 8760kB in 7s (1213kB/s)                                                                                                                                                                                (Reading database ... 193958 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace pidgin 1:2.6.2-1ubuntu7.2 (using .../pidgin_1%3a2.6.6-1ubuntu3~pidgin2.09.10_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement pidgin ... Preparing to replace finch 1:2.6.2-1ubuntu7.2 (using .../finch_1%3a2.6.6-1ubuntu3~pidgin2.09.10_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement finch ... Preparing to replace pidgin-data 1:2.6.2-1ubuntu7.2 (using .../pidgin-data_1%3a2.6.6-1ubuntu3~pidgin2.09.10_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement pidgin-data ... Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Setting up pidgin-data (1:2.6.6-1ubuntu3~pidgin2.09.10) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/purple/prefs.xml ... Setting up pidgin (1:2.6.6-1ubuntu3~pidgin2.09.10) ... Setting up finch (1:2.6.6-1ubuntu3~pidgin2.09.10) ... Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Dupa urmarea acestor pasi, aveti instalat noul Pidging 2.6.6. Utilizare placuta.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install pidgin
(9.10+)