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Pidgin 2.0.0 .deb for Ubuntu Feisty 7.04

Pidgin, the new name of Gaim as released its version 2.0.0.

Pidgin 2.0.0 is already available for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I have backported it to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.

People running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn who want to run pidgin and finch, the text based version of pidgin can get it from Debuntu's repository.

Simply add:

deb http://repository.debuntu.org/ feisty multiverse
deb-src http://repository.debuntu.org/ feisty multiverse

To your /etc/apt/sources.list and then:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install pidgin

Note that by running pidgin, the third party plugins you were using will be disable.

Enjoy!


Submitted by chantra on Mon, 2007-06-04 19:51.

I keep getting this error

Submitted by Reece Mak (not verified) on Fri, 2007-07-20 20:06.

I keep getting this error message when i am doing apt-get update

W: GPG error: http://repository.debuntu.org feisty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 0E466170BCF1FC29
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Also, when is the 2.0.2 available ????


AMD64 feisty package

Submitted by Wolfgang (not verified) on Fri, 2007-07-20 07:30.

Hey,

is there an AMD64 tree of the feisty repository? I cannot find any AMD64 entries in the "Release" file.

best regards,

Wolfgang


Thanks

Submitted by Seb (not verified) on Tue, 2007-07-17 21:47.

Thanks


Receive GPG error: Public Key couldn't be verified

Submitted by MystaMax (not verified) on Sat, 2007-07-14 09:20.

I receive the following error:

W: GPG error: http://repository.debuntu.org feisty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 0E466170BCF1FC29
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

The funny thing is, "sudo apt-get update" is the command that generates the error.

What do you suggest?

Also, will this work when I update to Gutsy Gibbon? Will I be able to allow the default Ubuntu repositories take over update responsibilities of Pidgin?


To fix add the GPG key by

Submitted by camtech (not verified) on Fri, 2007-07-20 21:52.

To fix add the GPG key by runnig this in the terminal:
wget http://repository.debuntu.org/GPG-Key-chantra.txt -O- | sudo apt-key add -


apt-get update

Submitted by chantra on Sat, 2007-07-14 11:07.

As it suggest, run apt-get update. It happens sometimes that some components could not be retrieve, re-running apt-get update will correct this.
Concerning the transition to Gutsy, this package was made using the development gutsy package. When Gutsy will be released, the version available in Gutsy repository will be newer than this one and therefore, the package will be updated.
For your information, pidgin version in gutsy is 2.0.2 at the moment. The one on the repository is 2.0.1.
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Upgrade question

Submitted by Tweek (not verified) on Sat, 2007-06-09 04:12.

Hi there, thanks for doing the backport!

When I did an update on my desktop, I got prompted with an update to Gaim which was a transitional package to Pidgin, but when I update my laptop, I'm not getting that same package. (In fact, when I look at my desktop now, that package is listed under the "local or obsolete" section, so I presume it's no longer on the server.) Is this an error or was that package withdrawn for some reason?


gaim links to pidgin

Submitted by chantra on Sat, 2007-06-09 14:54.

I believe you should only have "gaim-data" in the "local and obsolete" section of synaptic.
In Gutsy, pidgin packages creates a dummy gaim deb in order to avoid dependencies issue with ubuntu-desktop.
Gaim packages only contains links to the new pidgin executables.

$ ls -l /usr/bin/gaim*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  6 2007-05-31 22:33 /usr/bin/gaim -> pidgin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-05-31 22:33 /usr/bin/gaim-remote -> purple-remote
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2007-05-31 22:33 /usr/bin/gaim-send -> purple-send
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-05-31 22:33 /usr/bin/gaim-send-async -> purple-send-async
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  5 2007-05-31 22:33 /usr/bin/gaim-text -> finch
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2007-05-31 22:33 /usr/bin/gaim-url-handler -> purple-url-handler

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www.getdeb.net

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2007-06-04 20:11.

Check this nice site: www.getdeb.net. It has pidgin for feisty since a while now, and much more.


From what I've heard it does

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2007-06-08 00:25.

From what I've heard it does not include Finch though.


That's right, and I actually

Submitted by chantra on Mon, 2007-06-04 21:25.

That's right, and I actually used it for a while.
The package I am proposing is a backport of the version for ubuntu gutsy. Same patches are applied.
It comes in different packages such as pidgin, pidgin-data, pidgin-dev and gaim and finaly, it also includes finch.
Thanks for the link though.
Debuntu


Plus the getdeb version is

Submitted by André Fettouhi (not verified) on Tue, 2007-06-05 13:27.

Plus the getdeb version is already out in 2.0.1 but if I use your repo apt-get demands that your package be installed/upgrade to.

Regards

André