Install Pidgin 2.6.2 on Lenny
The version of Pidgin that is in the Lenny repositories has some problems. It’s an older version and does not work with Yahoo messenger, usually you can’t get the proper certifcate from Yahoo in Pidgin. I attempted to install it myself using the version of Pidgin for Sid by downloading the files from Debian. I ran into dependency issue after issue and finally decided just to go with backports. This is the easiest way to install Pidgin 2.6 on Debian Lenny.
Using Lenny-Backports you can install Pidgin 2.6.2 on Debian Lenny.
Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates), so they will run without new libraries (wherever it is possible) on a stable Debian distribution. I recommend you to pick out single backports which fits your needs, and not to use all backports available here.
To add backports to your apt sources do the following steps.
open up /etc/apt/sources.list in your editor of choice (as root)
add the line: deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
save the sources.list
apt-get update
Now you need to add key from backports.
apt-get install debian-backports-keyring
or
gpg –keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net –recv-keys 16BA136C
gpg –export 16BA136C | apt-key add -
or
wget -O – http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add -
Now I would suggest removing the current pidgin install.
apt-get remove pidgin
Once it is removed use the -t lenny-backports flag to install pidgin.
apt-get install -t lenny-backports pidgin
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