A couple of days ago I had a problem connecting to Yahoo Messenger using Pidgin 2.5.5. I thought that there was something wrong with my network. But I tried using the original Yahoo Messenger and it worked. So I knew my network was fine, but not my Pidgin. Then I tried to Google it and found that Yahoo had upgraded their server to a new version. That’s why my Pidgin 2.5.5 couldn’t connect.
Then I browsed to the Pidgin official website, and wow — they had a new version, Pidgin v2.5.7, which fixed the Yahoo problem. You can upgrade your Pidgin by using this command (this is for Ubuntu):
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8
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
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgradeFor other operating systems you can get it here.
That’s it. Have a nice day…