Pidgin 2.5.7 for Ubuntu fixes Yahoo Login Issues
Pclassgin, the GTK+ frontend to libpurple, has released Pclassgin 2.5.7 for Ubuntu. This new release adds support for the latest Yahoo Protocol 16 to fix login problems the multi-protocol messaging client has had with Yahoo.
Another major fix is; before, each time you blocked an MSN user not on your buddy list, Pclassgin got disconnected. With Pclassgin 2.5.7 this no-longer happens.
Other fixes include:
* Only display the AIM “Unable to Retrieve Buddy List” message once per connection.
* When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport network if we don’t get network ID’s for them.
The Pclassgin for Ubuntu now has a PPA repository for those who want to get new releases like the version 2.5.7. Although Pclassgin is an Ubuntu pre-install, Ubuntu does not update or upgrade like it does with Firefox – – except for security purposes, so add the following PPA to your ect/apt/sources.list and update to Pclassgin 2.5.7
Copy-and-paste these commands into a terminal:
[Code Updated]
1 2 | echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pclassgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu `lsb_release –short –codename` main | \ sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pclassgin-ppa.list |
and authenticate with
1 | sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8 |
Now Pclassgin updates will show up in your Update Manager. Updating to Pclassgin 2.5.7 means installing these four packages via the Update Manager; libpurple-bin, libpurple0, pclassgin, pclassgin-data.
Open Source Pclassgin supports chat networks like AIM, Google Talk, MSN, MySpaceIM, Yahoo! and many others.
via [Pclassgin 2.5.7 ]
11:47 am on June 23rd, 2009
Just upgrade to Pidgin 2.5.7 . http://bit.ly/194D7b
11:51 am on June 25th, 2009
Apparently pidgin 2.5.7 fixes the yahoo issues http://vl.am/kcm
3:42 pm on June 27th, 2009
Update-Manager says that http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu doesn’t have any index files. I’m running Ubuntu 8.04 – Hardy Heron
9:27 am on June 29th, 2009
The yahoo issue with Ubuntu 9.04 is driving me crazy. I upgraded to pidgen 2.5.7 which is what it says will fix the problem but it didn’t. I still can’t connect my yahoo accounts.
I tried a debug and plugins and noticed the following :
03:56:12) plugins: /usr/lib/purple-2/libjabber.so is not usable because the ‘purple_init_plugin’ symbol could not be found. Does the plugin call the PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() macro
What do I do now ? Any help provided would be appreciated.
10:58 am on June 29th, 2009
@NTN: Is this what you’re looking for:
https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ppa
On the drop-down menu pick, The Hardy Heron, add to your sources.list and authenticate.
11:03 am on June 29th, 2009
@ERIC: OK, I’ll suggest you scrap it of and do a fresh install. Try to use the PPA if you did not do so before. I use Pidgin myself on Ubuntu 9.04 and I had no issues with Yahoo login.
2:11 am on June 30th, 2009
for those continuing to have problems ….i finally got pidgen 2.5.7 upgrade working on jaunty (ubuntu 9.04) by adjusting the page setting on advanced settings on pidgen to ….scsa.msg.yahoo.com. So far no problems. And thanks for commenting back Martin…I would have tried your suggestion next.
10:40 am on June 30th, 2009
Thanks a lot my friend…
6:36 pm on June 30th, 2009
Please help as the synaptic manager is giving me this message.
E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
6:46 pm on June 30th, 2009
I’m running Ubuntu 8.10
9:20 pm on July 1st, 2009
there is a missing line in the above commands. Number 1 should be the following (I have solved my problems):
. /etc/lsb-release
9:57 pm on July 1st, 2009
@DANIEL: Thanks for the info, in fact something was wrong, I’ve now updated the code.
4:46 pm on July 11th, 2009
it kool
7:03 pm on July 11th, 2009
Works, thanks!
It also updated a 5th package:
fast-user-switch-applet
2:51 pm on July 27th, 2009
Thanks for making the effort to assist us but the commands you suggest be pasted into a terminal – are they separate lines or were they split?
2:54 pm on July 27th, 2009
@JEFFH: they are single line commands. Just copy as they are and paste in your terminal. You’re welcome.
4:04 pm on August 19th, 2009
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12:30 pm on September 8th, 2009
Hey Martin,
could you please remove the whitespaces following the first backslash? The whitespace causes the first line to be executed instead of being appended to sources.lst.
1:17 pm on September 8th, 2009
@ Matjes: Thanks, I’ve updated, i hope it appends now.