{"id":2978,"date":"2014-02-09T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2014-12-12T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T12:58:08","slug":"install-latest-pidgin-ppa-ubuntu-1404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/install-latest-pidgin-ppa-ubuntu-1404\/","title":{"rendered":"Install the Latest Pidgin 2.10.9 via PPA in Ubuntu 14.04\/12.04\/13.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Pidgin_logo_Icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Pidgin_logo_Icon.png\" alt=\"Pidgin PPA Ubuntu\" width=\"235\" height=\"235\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Pidgin_logo_Icon.png 235w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Pidgin_logo_Icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The instant messaging program Pidgin 2.10.9 has been released recently. <b>It mainly fixed problems logging into some servers including jabber.org and chat.facebook.com<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The default Pidgin versions in Ubuntu universe repositories are quite old (See <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.pidgin.im\/wiki\/ChangeLog\" title=\"Pidgin changelog history\" target=\"_blank\">Pidgin changelog history<\/a>). The Pidgin Developers PPA provides the most recent version of Pidgin for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 12.04. Here&#8217;s how to add the PPA and install \/ upgrade your Pidgin from it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/the-latest-pidgin-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/the-latest-pidgin-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"Install the latest Pidgin Release in Ubuntu\" width=\"468\" height=\"373\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/the-latest-pidgin-ubuntu.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/the-latest-pidgin-ubuntu-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get started, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on your keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the command below to add Pidgin PPA to your system:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:pidgin-developers\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p>After that, update your system package lists and then you&#8217;re able to install packages from the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update<\/pre>\n<p>Now install the Pidgin:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install pidgin<\/pre>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>For the <b>Off-the-Record (OTR)<\/b> plug-in, which is designed for use with Pidgin ensures authenticated and secure communications between Pidgin users, just search for and install <b>pidgin-otr<\/b> from Ubuntu Software Center. Finally enable the plugin from Pidgin menu <i>Tools -> Plugins<\/i>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The instant messaging program Pidgin 2.10.9 has been released recently. It mainly fixed problems logging into some servers including jabber.org and chat.facebook.com. The default Pidgin versions in Ubuntu universe repositories are quite old (See Pidgin changelog history). The Pidgin Developers PPA provides the most recent version of Pidgin for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.10, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1021,17,37,855],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-pidgin-ppa","tag-ubuntu-12-04","tag-ubuntu-13-10","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}