Pidgin 2.1.1 on Ubuntu Feisty
4 September 2007 – 1:32 pm by wgI’m not sure exactly why but it appears that Ubuntu hasn’t yet included Pidgin (formerly GAIM) in their package repository just yet. I have been running Pidgin for a while on Ubuntu (version 2.0, installed from a .deb I found floating around online) but I’ve been itching to upgrade for a while.
Today I came across the Debuntu repository (not affiliated with Ubuntu or myself) which has packages for Pidgin 2.1.1, and some other software.
Here is how I got Pidgin 2.1.1 installed on my Feisty Fawn Ubuntu machine:
- If you have GAIM installed, remove it
sudo apt-get remove gaim
- Add the debuntu Feisty repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo sh -c "echo \"deb http://repository.debuntu.org/ feisty multiverse\" >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo sh -c "echo \"deb-src http://repository.debuntu.org/ feisty multiverse\" >> /etc/apt/sources.list" - Add debuntu to your trusted apt repositories
wget http://repository.debuntu.org/GPG-Key-chantra.txt -O- | sudo apt-key add -
- Update your package information
sudo apt-get update - Upgrade or Install
- If you already have an older version of Pidgin installed, just upgrade your system as you normally would (via Synaptic or the Update manager)
- If you are installing for the first time, install the “pidgin” package from Synaptic, or from the command line:
sudo apt-get install pidgin
