Pidgin problem

phantom_cyph · 02-18-2008, 09:51 PM

Yah. My friend is using Linux Mint, and needs the latest pidgin as it supports myspace im.

However, there are only rpms for this version, and converting from alien causes dependency problems. I think what it needs is 2.3's pidgin-data. I have tried to locate this, but so far, in vain.

Can i get some help? Is there a place that has 2.3 out in a .deb binary?

Thanks!

juliadream · 02-18-2008, 09:59 PM

It's in the debian testing repositories. If you need a backported version (I have no idea how mint relates to debian) it's to be found at http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/misc-backports/ along with a lot of other things.

phantom_cyph · 02-18-2008, 10:18 PM

That ain't gonna work. There are so many dependencies. I tried to install it, it needs pidgin-data, so i install pidgin-data. Then i try to install pidgin again, it needs libpurple0, so i get libpurple0, but it needs nbr4 or something. Which isn't in the repo you gave me.

This is why I like slack...

Any other ideas?

juliadream · 02-18-2008, 10:26 PM

All I can suggest then is building it yourself.

http://www.pidgin.im/download/

Unless you know which version of ubuntu mint parallels

phantom_cyph · 02-19-2008, 07:35 PM

Apparently Celena is based on 7.04. Heres the sources.list:

Code:

## -------------------
## UBUNTU REPOSITORIES
## -------------------

## +++ Feisty (Ubuntu 7.04) +++
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates main restricted universe mu$
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted universe $

## +++ Backports & Proposed (Ubuntu Unstable) +++
#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted universe$
#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-proposed main restricted universe $

## +++ Source Repositories +++
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted universe multi$
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates main restricted univer$
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted univ$
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted univ$

## -----------------------
## LINUX MINT REPOSITORIES
## -----------------------

## +++ Celena (Linux Mint 3.1) +++
deb http://www.linuxmint.com/repository celena/

## +++ Romeo (Linux Mint Unstable) +++
## deb http://www.linuxmint.com/repository romeo/

## ------------------
## OTHER REPOSITORIES
## ------------------

## +++ Canonical (RealPlayer10, Opera, DesktopSecure etc...) +++
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main

## +++ Medibuntu (Codecs and extra applications) +++
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ feisty free non-free

juliadream · 02-20-2008, 08:51 AM

that helps greatly.. here you go

http://nateclark.com/articles/2007/0...-ubuntu-feisty