LXer: Install Brand New Pidgin 2.7 in Ubuntu Lucid, Karmic in Just 2 Steps

LXer · 05-15-2010, 12:30 AM

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Have you guys already forgot Pidgin. I hope not. For starters Pidgin used to be the default IM client in Ubuntu up until Ubuntu Karmic was released. Then it was replaced by Empathy as you must have already noticed. Pidgin 2.7 was recently released with a number of improvements and bug fixes.

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craigevil · 05-15-2010, 12:44 AM

2 steps?

apt-get install pidgin

$ apt-cache policy pidgin
pidgin:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.7.0-1
Version table:
2.7.0-1 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages