Ubuntu-LB Pidgin 2.5.0 With MSNP15 Is Out

[Dani Soufi]

Yeah you could wait till the new Ubuntu release of "Intrepid", or just add a
port to your sources.list and get the new Pidgin Ubuntu package provided by
Ubuntu.

Who are the first to follow with this post, here is a quick how to:
Add PPA to your "sources.list" file and get directly the officially Ubuntu
made package provided by Pidgin Developers. Go to
https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive<https://launchpad.net/%7Epidgin-developers/+archive>for
what you should add in your "sources.list". Then reload your list and
upgrade.

Enjoy.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Jocelyn <jhabib at gmail.com> wrote:

> so we wait i am not in a hurry , i stopped using msn long time a go :D
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Dani Soufi <danisoufi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Jocelyn,
>> Installing debian packages from getdeb.net aren't reliable and risky.
>> Those packages are greated by users, could have a lot of failures that could
>> lead to system crash. I once had experienced that. So I don't recommend it.
>> It's better to build from source then to get it from that site or just wait
>> the official ubuntu package.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Dani
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Jocelyn <jhabib at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.getdeb.net
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Dani Soufi <danisoufi at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>> The problem was that Pidgin developers were waiting for Debian package
>>>> to be released, but I checked our Intrepid respiratory and found the newest
>>>> Pidgin there. I messaged Pidgin developers and they built the package. It's
>>>> in launchpad as I've already noted. Enjoy.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Dani
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Bassem JARKAS <jarkas at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you Dani for the great news, but unfortunately there is no
>>>>> package build for ubuntu till now.
>>>>> So if you found it, please tell us.
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Dani Soufi <danisoufi at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>> Congratulations to all Pidgin users. Finally the MSN protocol support
>>>>>> was updated and finally officially released. Here are couple of changes for
>>>>>> this released that I got from Pidgin's change log:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    - *libpurple*
>>>>>>       - Ability to create custom smileys (currently only the MSN
>>>>>>       protocol utilizes the feature). (Thanks to Mauro Sérgio Ferreira Brasil,
>>>>>>       Marcus Lundblad, Jorge Villaseñor and other contributors)
>>>>>>       - Add a configure option, --with-system-ssl-certs to allow
>>>>>>       packagers to specify a system-wide SSL CA certificates directory. When set,
>>>>>>       we don't install our SSL CA certs, so it's important that the libpurple
>>>>>>       package depend on the CA certificates.
>>>>>>       - Add SSL Certificates support to the NSS SSL plugin. (Thanks
>>>>>>       to Lou Cipher)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    - *XMPP*
>>>>>>       - Fix a bug that caused the UI to not refresh and caused the
>>>>>>       client to use 99% CPU when an XMPP account lost its connection to the
>>>>>>       server.
>>>>>>       - Possibly fix a bug where some clients could get into a state
>>>>>>       where they moved a buddy back and forth between two groups in an endless
>>>>>>       loop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    - *IRC*
>>>>>>       - /ctcp command (Vladislav Guberinić)
>>>>>>       - Allow for auto-detection of incoming UTF-8 formatted text on
>>>>>>       accounts which are configured to use some other encoding.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    - *MSN*
>>>>>>       - Update MSN support to protocol 15 (Elliott Sales de Andrade,
>>>>>>       Jorge Villaseñor, Mike Ruprecht, Carlos Silva, Ma Yuan, Daniel Ljungborg and
>>>>>>       others)
>>>>>>       - Personal messages are now supported. They are treated as
>>>>>>       status messages.
>>>>>>       - Offline IM is now supported.
>>>>>>       - Aliasing is now supported server-side.
>>>>>>       - Buddies are now emblemed. Bots and web clients should now be
>>>>>>       distinguished.
>>>>>>       - Update smiley set for non-faces.
>>>>>>       - Failing to update a buddy icon when the buddy has gone
>>>>>>       offline no longer crashes.
>>>>>>       - Custom smileys received in a chat no longer go to a new
>>>>>>       window.
>>>>>>       - Processing is no longer completely frozen after the servers
>>>>>>       block a message because it contains (what they consider) inappropriate text.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    - *Pidgin*
>>>>>>       - Custom buddy icons can now be added to and removed from buddy
>>>>>>       list entries via the buddy list entry right-click menu.
>>>>>>       - Resize large incoming custom smileys to a maximum of 96px on
>>>>>>       either side.
>>>>>>       - Offer to add new buddies into the same contact as existing
>>>>>>       buddies in the same group if the alias given is the same.
>>>>>>       - Minor smiley style update.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    - *General*
>>>>>>       - Group and Chat buddy list entries can now be given custom
>>>>>>       buddy icons.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    - *Finch*
>>>>>>       - Added "Invite..." menu to chats.
>>>>>>       - Added "View All Logs" menu in the buddylist to display a list
>>>>>>       of all IM logs.
>>>>>>       - Added '/msgcolor' command to change colors of different
>>>>>>       classes of messages in a conversation. See '/help msgcolor' for details.
>>>>>>       - Added tab-completion for commands in conversation windows.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    - *Windows-specific changes*
>>>>>>       - Don't install the GSSAPI SASL plugin on NT4 to avoid an error
>>>>>>       popup.
>>>>>>       - Use the Kerberos for Windows libraries installed on the
>>>>>>       system (if present) instead of including enough to load the plugin (Kfw
>>>>>>       still needed to be installed for it to actually work before this change).
>>>>>>       - Upgrade to Perl 5.10 (System Perl runtime must be upgraded
>>>>>>       for Perl plugins to continue to work).
>>>>>>       - Upgrade SILC to use the 1.1.7 toolkit
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You could all download the source package and compile it by yourself
>>>>>> OR you could add PPA to your "sources.list" file and get directly the
>>>>>> officially Ubuntu made package provided by Pidgin Developers. Please check
>>>>>> https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive<https://launchpad.net/%7Epidgin-developers/+archive>for what you should add in your "sources.list", but make sure that you'd
>>>>>> check for the latest package version listed there in the list, because it
>>>>>> wasn't been added when I last time checked. But it should probably be in
>>>>>> couple of hours ready, "Hopefully".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>> Dani
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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