Installing Pidgin.im on Ubuntu

Installing Pidign.im was to say the least a pain in the ass. but here i am to tell you how to do it in 5 minuets or less. depending on you competency. which is obviously great as you are already using ubuntu :)

Well here we are goto here http://download.ubuntu.pl/_Feisty_Fawn/pidgin/ and browse to the latest version. which at the time of writing is 2.1.1, and download both files in there.

now im assuming you dont know what you are doing so this is very step by step.

1. remove Gaim and Gaim-data packages from you system by going to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager, enter your password when prompted. after it has loaded its database. Click on the "Installed" packages to show only those installed. click on the list in the right pane. and type "gaim" this should seek to where gaim is listed in the list. right click gaim and select "Remove completely" this will come up and tell you that it also wants to remove "nautalis-sendto" and "Ubuntu-desktop", if you do not know what these are that is fine.

Now that you have told it to completely remove Gaim you will also want to right click "gaim-data" and completely remove this. as it does not require anything else it should not select anything else for removal.

Once these are selected click apply and it should bring up a summary. then click Accept or what ever it is. cant remember at this point. when thats done. you should have downloaded the 2 files from the above link by now.

double click on pidgin_2.1.1-1_1386.deb or which ever version you have. after its installed do the same to pidgin-plugin-pack_2.1.1-1_1386.deb and there ya have it. it will probably even show up in the Applications menu with out you having to do anything.

If not right click the menu and manually add it yourself.

May have more useless information like this added everytime i accomplish something that does'nt work the way that it should.