Ubuntu — Upgrade Pidgin to fix Yahoo!

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

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