Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

[bruno <bruno.debian@cyberoso.com>]

Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> Hi, Yuwen.
>
> On Wednesday, 23 December 2009 15:16:42 +0800,
> Yuwen Dai wrote:
>
>   
> > > I don't have such a problem. Can you get some kind of hint from the
> > > output of the pidgin debug output window?
> > >       
>
>   
> > The error message is : Our protocol is not supported by the server.
> >
> > The version of pidgin is 2.4.3.
> >     
>
> Also I had this problem with Yahoo and MSN with Pidgin 2.4.3 in Debian
> GNU/Linux Lenny. I suppose that this would have to that it is an old
> version that doesn't contemplate the changes that became in both
> protocols.
>
> With Pidgin 2.6.3 of backports I didn't have problems.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>   

Hello

Add this in  /etc/apt/sources.list

#Lenny backports
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

Then

apt-get install debian-backports-keyring

apt-get install -t lenny-backports pidgin

From the spanish list (in spanish) : 
http://xbitcarry.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/instalar-pidgin-2-6-2-en-debian-lenny/ 



bruno