I’m not a huge fan of Yahoo! IM, but I do have clients and co-workers that use it so I really need it to work in Pidgin. A recent protocol upgrade at Yahoo! broke Pidgin 2.5.5. I found several ‘fixes’ out there that included changing the named pager server to an IP address. But none of those worked for me.
In typical fashion I checked the official sources last but the Pidgin website has an updated version that has fixed the Yahoo! problem — http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/
In brief, we just need to get the latest version (2.5.7) from Pidgin rather than from Ubuntu sources.
Simply run these two commands in a terminal:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \
67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8
echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \
`lsb_release --short --codename` main | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list
And then update apt and upgrade pidgin:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pidgin