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06-26-2009, 01:34 AM
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Registered: Feb 2009
Location: Kolkata,India
Distribution: Fedora 8,Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10
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pidgin and yahoo
This is a very old problem indeed---the compatibility of yahoo with pidgin is disrupted once again...
can anyone give me a solution??
i have tried changing the proxy server to 66.163.181.180 but to no effect....connection is always refused...scs.msg.yahoo.com too doesn't seem to work for many days...
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06-26-2009, 01:57 AM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: London, UK
Distribution: Slackware
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Upgrade to the latest version of Pidgin, it's fixed there.
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06-26-2009, 04:53 AM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: wisconsin
Distribution: arch linux, slackware, ubuntu studio
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go here.. & follow the instructions...
http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/
go to the update manager & check for updates. it'll now give you all the latest fixes from their site. |
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06-26-2009, 11:57 AM
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Registered: Feb 2009
Location: Kolkata,India
Distribution: Fedora 8,Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10
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i have followed the instructions...but the only update i get for pidgin is pidgin-libnotify....
is that the only thing to download?
how will i get pidgin 2.5.7?
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06-26-2009, 05:23 PM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: wisconsin
Distribution: arch linux, slackware, ubuntu studio
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hmmm... I did it & when I checked for updates pidgin 2.5.7 was there....
start up pidgin & go to help>about
..what version number is it? it should of updated.
weird.
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06-26-2009, 05:54 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
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Do you need to use a proxy server? Try it with no proxy server.
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06-28-2009, 02:09 PM
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Registered: Feb 2009
Location: Kolkata,India
Distribution: Fedora 8,Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10
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I have installed pidgin 2.5.7...it seems to work fine....but its not giving me new mail alerts....what should I do??
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