pidgin: no way to create a yahoo protocol account

browny_amiga · 06-16-2010, 12:35 PM

Hi

I have just found, that my pidgin on a old debian Lenny machine does not support Yahoo as a protocol anymore. When checking out the list of accounts, the one with yahoo is now listed as (unknown). And when I wipe pidgin clean off the system, remove all configuration and reinstall is, now there is no way to register a yahoo account, it is just not listed in all the protocols. What is going on???

I have another lenny machine and I use yahoo there all the time...

Markus

yooy · 06-17-2010, 06:40 AM

latest pidgin on ubuntu repos seem to have yahoo and yahoo japan options, however try selecting msn account in pidgin as they are partners now.

craigevil · 06-17-2010, 12:59 PM

Install pidgin from the backports.org repo.

http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/do...d=instructions

browny_amiga · 06-18-2010, 02:26 PM

I already have the version from the repository:
2.4.3.4lenny7

And as I said, this is the same version I got on a laptop, just that there yahoo works (I got 3 yahoo accounts) and on the system in question it does not. No way to setup yahoo accounts (although you still can on the laptop one) and (unknown) behind where it lists the protocol.

I have already tried to deinstall with purging configuration and erased the .purple and .gaim directories.
The only indicator that I can see is, that this machine is ancient, meaning that it was running sarge and etch at some point and I upgraded to Lenny, so old stuff might still be floating around. But how do I remove that?

Markus

browny_amiga · 06-18-2010, 02:38 PM

Wait a minute! This can't be right. Haven't all backports at the end of the version number this bpo?
But still, when I go to synaptic and select the backports as source (www.backports.org/main) I get the pidgin with the version I mentioned. I don't get this, what is going on?

Markus

craigevil · 06-18-2010, 02:40 PM

Yahoo and MSN change the way their protocols work constantly.

If you are running Debian stable you need to install pidgin 2.7.1-1~bpo50+1 from the backports.org repo.

Are you using the same version of both computers?
Post the output of:

Code:

apt-cache policy pidgin

You have to specify backports, READ the instructions.
instructions [Debian Backports]

Quote:

1. Add this line

deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

to your /etc/apt/sources.list.

2. Run apt-get update

3. All backports are deactivated by default (i.e. the packages are pinned to 1 by using NotAutomatic: yes in the Release files, just as in experimental). If you want to install something from backports run:

apt-get -t lenny-backports install “package”

Of course, you can use aptitude as well:

aptitude -t lenny-backports install “package”

browny_amiga · 06-22-2010, 05:25 AM

Ok, now it works. For some reason, it was not taking the backport version. Funny enough, on the other system, the backports repository was automatically enabled and I don't remember doing any pinning.

But thanks for the pointer, I did not know the policy directive, it will come in handy next time.

Markus