Comments on: Install Pidgin Instant Messanger in Ubuntu

By: Lottie

Lottie — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:09:53 +0000

Yerrrh, its cool but I have it on my new Dell laptop which as webcam and since I’m only a teenager and it doesn’t use webcam it’s annoying!
Still cool though!

By: Will

Will — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:20:44 +0000

Anybody having problems with pidgin away autoresponse? I have all my options checked and when I set away autorespond on, it doesn’t autorespond. This worked fine in gaim 1.5. Couldn’t get it to work in either Gaim 2.0 beta or Pidgin.

By: Eva

Eva — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:56:41 +0000

Okay, I have been using Unbuntu for a little less than a month, and it’s fantastic. I can do so much more than I could on Windows, but a few days ago, my Pidgin wouldn’t work. So I’ve been using retarded Windows XP just to talk to my friends.

” *****@****.com disabled.

Unable to authenticate: Authentication failure.”

That’s what it says when I open the buddy list for Pidgin. Can you help me fix it?

By: dave

dave — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:03:26 +0000

I have installed okay but without xmpp how can I get gtalk to work?

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:20:12 +0000

I have answered my own question, thank you.

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:53:59 +0000

I went to getdeb.net and got the version of Pidgin for the AMD 64, since the specific one mentioned here didn’t apply to me. However, upon trying to open it, I get a package installer screen that will not allow me to click the “Install Package” button. Instead, it says, “Status: Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: pidgin-data”. Ilp am a complete n00b when it comes to Ubuntu, but I have been trying it out for a day and have been on forum after forum looking for answers. Any help is much appreciated.

By: kehan

kehan — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:21:45 +0000

ubuntu-desktop is a metapackage that depends on all the other packages that make up the ubuntu desktop but doesn’t actually contain any code/software itself - it is perfectly safe to remove once ubuntu is installed.

By: botzko

botzko — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:49:14 +0000

I use Slackware and there is ‘play’ - play sound files. I use it to play sound on events ‘play --file=%s’

By: tyler

tyler — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:20:18 +0000

woohoo!

Just got the debs from getdeb.net of Pidgin 2.0.2 and decided to blindly install with gaim (2.0 beta6) still installed, and it went perfectly!

Everything is how I left it - same profile data, accounts, passwords, even my away msg is still up ! The only that was the initial connection took about 10 seconds and had me slightly worried for a few seconds.

Just tested and gaim still works too

By: Hope

Hope — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:14:20 +0000

hey

I’ve upgraded from Gaim to Pidgin without any problems with the software, but my connection as it relates to Pidgin won’t work.

I’ve got my accounts configured the way I want them, and I’ll try to sign in. After about half an hour, the connection will time-out and I can’t sign-on at all.

Any ideas? I’ve heard that my router could be blocking the ports that Pidgin wants to use, or that it could be my firewall, but seeing as I haven’t got one of those, it’s not likely.

By: cheryl

cheryl — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:58:50 +0000

oops! ALT + F2 not CTRL+F2

By: cheryl

cheryl — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:57:06 +0000

you can press CTRL + F2 and type pidgin

open a terminal and type pidgin&

By: jin

jin — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:38:01 +0000

i needed to use: sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite --force-bad-verify --force-conflicts --force-overwrite-dir pidgin_2.0.0beta7devel.vicox-1_i386.deb

it looks like it was successful, but now how do i actually launch pidgin? i don’t see it in any menus?

By: Abhijeet Maharana

Abhijeet Maharana — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:43:44 +0000

Just to report that I installed Pidgin from the first link (http://vicox.net/ubuntu/pidgin_2.0.0beta7devel.vicox-1_i386.deb) on Ubuntu Edgy and it worked without *any* hassle. I used Synaptic to uninstall gaim which prompted for removal of nautilus-sendto and ubuntu-desktop. I left the gaim-data package intact. Next, I installed Pidgin from the deb file. It appeared under the Internet menu and when I started it, it also picked up all the accounts that I had configured in Gaim. All this in under 10 minutes.

By: Brodie Pearce

Brodie Pearce — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:06:42 +0000

Naralas & Deryck:

You need to remove the package “gaim” before you can install Pidgin. This is because Pidgin overwrites some of the gaim directories, easiest way is to just remove it via Synaptic. Removing gaim will also remove nautilus-sendto and ubuntu-desktop keep in mind, however these are just gaim plugins anyway.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:42:52 +0000

I used dexters line:

with the new package found at the site Filter posted:
http://download.ubuntu.pl/_Feisty_Fawn/pidgin/
And although there were a LOT of warning when dpkgin, it works =)

By: filter

filter — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:47:47 +0000

Oops - here is the missed link to the polish ubuntu repository ->

http://download.ubuntu.pl/_Feisty_Fawn/pidgin/

By: filter

filter — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:46:12 +0000

For a more recent - an not beta - version of pidgin check this polish ubuntu repository.

filters 2 cents

By: choman

choman — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:22:09 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice if the ubuntu repository was updated so the next apt-get update; apt-get upgrade I performed migrated me to pidgin, or at least was add as an alternative IM

By: Riding Linux

Riding Linux — Thu, 10 May 2007 14:24:49 +0000

Gaim instant messenger renamed to Pidgin…

I just realized last night that Gaim has been renamed to Pidgin.
Extracts from Pidgin website (http://pidgin.im)

We’ve got a new name, a new look, and a ton of new features, but we’re still the same old instant messaging client you know an…