pidgin v2.6.1 pet file

[bigfoot]

Proudly announcing the new version of Pidgin v2.6.1 I have built today.

You can get it here from Rapidshare.

My homepage is up2date.

Make shure, /etc/ld.so.conf contains /usr/local/lib before installing. You need to deinstall the old version, of course.

Currently OTR seems to refuse working with this pidgin version. I'll keep an eye on this...
Update
...investigated a bit. I copied libotr.la and libotr.so to /usr/local/lib/pidgin and got this:

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plugins: /usr/local/lib/pidgin/libotr.so is not usable because the 'purple_init_plugin' symbol could not be found.  Does the plugin call the PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() macro?

Seems to libpurple which was updated, I think the otr people have to adjust their code.

[jjiiioooooo]

Wows thats great thanks for posting the latest pidgin

[Rait]

Tyvm.
2.6.3 is released... maybe someone could make a pet?

[Bikerbob]

tried to install 2.6.1 after an uninstall of 2.4

I cannot start up..

if I use PPM to check.. I get this.

File /usr/local/bin/pidgin has these missing library files:
libpurple.so.O

So what do I do about that?

Thanks
James

[GrumpyWolfe]

Hi Bikerbob

Even if you followed the instructions given when he posted it for some reason pidgin will not recognize it where it is. Just make a syslink in /usr/libs and you will have no problem

[socrates]

it says SSL Certificate error ...

[GrumpyWolfe]

Hi socrates

Need to know are you running firefox or seamonkey and have you if using firefox did you make a syslink in /usr/lib that points to firefox but says seamonkey

[socrates]

Well I use firefox but I don't get what does that have to do with this
I just uninstalled pidgin 2.4.1 and installed this

[mattst8ler]

This version of Pidgin works great after the aforementioned modifications, but I am still having a minor issue. No sounds. I have played around with the sound tab under preferences, but nothing works. Any ideas?
Thanks again for putting this together.

[hondasid]

common problem:

after install, go to /usr/local/lib and copy libpurple and the 2 symlinks to the following folders:
/lib
/usr/lib

make sure to copy the three all together and not one at a time, otherwise they won't work. That makes pidgin work great.

As far as sound, I'm not sure. It's always just worked for me. except for the lib problem obviously

[GrumpyWolfe]

Hi mattst8ler

in main panel under tools preferences click on the sounds tap and put in aplay %s and change method to command

[mattst8ler]

I figured out the sound issue. I had to uninstall 2.6.1, reinstall 2.4.1 and had a look at the sound tab under preferences. The word "aplay %s" was listed in the sound command box. I have no idea what this means, but I uninstalled 2.4.1, reinstalled 2.6.1, and edited the command box.
Voila! Working pidgin sound! Maybe this will help someone else with the same problem.

Thanks again for the pet.

[socrates]

After doing that I still get SSL Certificate Error...

[Makoto]

Try opening a terminal window (rxvt) and running Pidgin from the command line. If that works (you might have to be in Pidgin's directory), does it throw up any messages about missing dependencies?

[GrumpyWolfe]

Hi socrates

Ok give me a few more bits of information like what browser you are using firefox or seamonkey. Next if you made a syslink to firefox did you name it seamonkey with no capital letters, lastly open a terminal and type pidgin --debug and see what error messages it gives like can't find libssl.so.3

[socrates]

Ok, I was doing a search in google but I didn't find anything, and then I was thinking that in Windows if you have your time settings wrong, you couldn't log in, so that was the problem I had my time wrong (1988 ) and now it works great, thanks
So, if you have SSL Certificate Error or Chain whatever, take a look at your time settings.

[dejan555]

Mirrored here:
pidgin-2.6.1.pet
md5sum

[Béèm]

In upup467 I get SSL support unavailable.
Where can I get this?
Not included in the pet?

[GrumpyWolfe]

Does the upup467 have firefox or is it running Seamonkey 2.0 but eather way you may have to create a syslink from them in /usr/libs to get the needed ssl support or you can get the files needed out of a old copy of seamonkey and put them in /usr/libs/seamonkey. If this does not get it going for you let me know and I may be able to supply yo with a pet of fix it

[Béèm]

Thanks GrumpyWolf
dpup476 uses SeaMonkey 1.1.18
I found an ssl lib in it's directory and I symlinked to it.
Now pidgin is connecting and working.