Ubuntu-LB Pidgin 2.5.0 With MSNP15 Is Out
Bassem JARKAS
jarkas at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 10:49:29 BST 2008
I'm using it now, and it's great.
Thank you Dani.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Dani Soufi <danisoufi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>>>>> Bassem JARKAS
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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Bassem JARKAS
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