Ubuntu Repositories: Pidgin Instant Messenger
June 9th, 2009
Ubuntu ships Pidgin but does not update it after a release (except for
security issues). For those users– who desire new releases of Pidgin, the official PPA:
Importing the GPG Key:
sudo apt-key adv
--recv-keys--keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8
Adding to sources list:
. /etc/lsb-release
echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \ `lsb_release –short –codename` main | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list
Don’t worry about your version specific PPA, the above code will add your ubuntu distro’s version automatically. Once this PPA is setup, Pidgin updates will show up in Update Manager along with the usual Ubuntu updates.
