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pidgin package

  1. Bug #244591 (nak)
  2. Comment #79

Comment 79 for bug 244591

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vijay krishna ramesh (vijay-ramesh06) wrote : Re: Cannot connect to ICQ ("The client version you are using is too old.")

strangely, I'm running Hardy and have upgraded (via apt-get I'm assuming, don't ever recall installing any other version of pidgin) to a higher version than is currently available on the http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/net/pidgin page. I downloaded the version from the page (thinking for whatever reason the repositories in my sources.list weren't updated? i'm using http://us.archive.ubuntu.com) and got the following:

vijay@confucius:~$ sudo dpkg -i Desktop/pidgin_2.4.1-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
dpkg - warning: downgrading pidgin from 1:2.4.3-0ubuntu1~hardy1 to 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.

the version I currently have (2.4.3) does not work with icq, so I'm willing to downgrade to see if 2.4.1 does, but that seems strange that a fix would require downgrading... is this what I need to do, or?

(by the by, adium works just fine on OSX, so I know the libpurple fix does work, I'm just confused as to the version of pidgin I need...)