Pidgin - Fixing problems with Yahoo in Ubuntu 9.04

If you are facing the issues like Connection refused or the Connecting message appearing for long time, its time to upgrade your pidgin to version 2.5.7.

In ubuntu 9.04 to upgrade to 2.5.7 execute the following two commands in Terminal.

[Latest instructions can be obtained from http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/ ]

Command#1
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8

 Command#2
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

1. Now open System --> Administration --> Synaptic Package Manager and do a refresh
2. Search for pidgin and mark for upgrade
3. Press Apply button
4. Close pidgin if running
5. After installation is complete run pidgin.