Comments on: Install Pidgin 2.6.1 in Ubuntu

By: AccesInterzis

AccesInterzis — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:40:33 +0000

Good tutorial. But I have a question. When I create 2 accounts (one is mine and the other one belongs to my sister), Pidgin mixes the friends of both accounts in one window. I mean I want to be like in Multi Messenger on Windows: each one has his own window with his friends. Not one window..and there all our friends mixed. Can I do this?

By: hemanth.hm

hemanth.hm — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:37:42 +0000

Now the PPA is up and running :O)

By: hemanth.hm

hemanth.hm — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:43:07 +0000

The pidgin PPA is yet to be updated, for Jaunty we need these

libgstfarsight0.10-0, libpurple0, libpurple-bin,
pidgin-data, libpurple-bin, pidgin-data and pidgin

By: Deafboy

Deafboy — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:49:17 +0000

Let me laugh. It is not posible to use videochat yet in Ubuntu jaunty. It will be possible in karmic, where pidgin is not included as default IM client.

Sounds absolutely logical

By: jarwadi

jarwadi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:56:56 +0000

Anyone give me clue, after I upgrade pidgin by using method 1 it is ok to chat with my gmail account but I am unable to connect to yahoo

Thanks for help

By: slumbergod

slumbergod — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:14:09 +0000

If you want video and voice you have to install the required versions of the libraries (not in Jaunty’s Repos) and then compile it for yourself.

Otherwise you can wait for Koala.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:05:55 +0000

Looking over things, it appears that the Voice and Video are Disabled be default. This was viewed from the help screen at the bottom going through the configuration. So it appears that the packages were not compiled with this support included. Am I correct or have I over looked something?

By: Aswin

Aswin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:01:40 +0000

+1
There is no option for video or voice chat.

By: NBS

NBS — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:17:46 +0000

I install it from getdeb on Jaunty, I don’t understant how to use the video, there is no option at all!

And do you know if there is some place where we can have some new theme since this seem to be one of the new features?

By: LGB

LGB — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:18:01 +0000

After installing, pidgin reported that I have no accounts configured … Which is strange since they were. So I had to reconfigure all my accounts based on data from accounts.xml, strangely the new pidgin stores the result there too, so I have no idea why I should redo this process …

By: robo47

robo47 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:02:40 +0000

Will the plugin-pack, encryption and otr-packackge from the jaunty sources still work with method 1 or method 2 ?
or will i need new .debs for them too ?

By: legolas wood

legolas wood — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:29:26 +0000

Can not enalbel the voice or video either, there is no option available to use them :O

By: W.D

W.D — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:39:00 +0000

How does Google video chat work with pidgin? Can’t find any options…

By: alakond

alakond — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:20:40 +0000

http://www.getdeb.net/app/pidgin

last version:
Ubuntu Jaunty 32 bits - 2.6.1
Ubuntu Jaunty 64 bits - 2.6.1
Ubuntu Intrepid 32 bits - 2.5.5
Ubuntu Intrepid 64 bits - 2.5.5
Ubuntu Hardy 32 bits - 2.6.1
Ubuntu Hardy 64 bits - 2.6.1

Method 2, for intrepid not work.

By: slumbergod

slumbergod — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:10:34 +0000

I gave up waiting for it to appear in the developer’s repo so I installed the getdeb packages.

Unfortunately, it looks like at this stage it is only supporting XMPP accounts and it is disabled in Jaunty because the library versions are not new enough.

By: Oleg Atamanenko

Oleg Atamanenko — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:13:50 +0000

Disagree.
The second method is much more correct.