Ubuntu :: Pidgin - Add Buddies Through CLI?
Apr 21, 2011
I recently began at a new company that uses google apps for domains. The problem is, there are nearly 150 employees and no centralized address book to speak of. I managed to get a list of legal names and email addresses out of the HR department, but I'd like to build my google address book as well as my pidgin buddy list.Pidgin buddy lists are in the format code...
I've tried to simply edit blist.xml, but the act of actually ADDING a buddy does more than simply stick them into your list, it actually performs a server action to do mutual authentication and stuff. So my question is: Is there a way I can run a script that will "add" all these people onto my buddy list without me having to type each email address and full name by hand?
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Dec 27, 2010
I am using pidgin 2.7.3 (libpurple 2.7.3).
The problem is Pidgin is showing online buddies as offline, both in case of gtalk & my facebook account.
Its even showing users offline while I am chatting with them.
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Jan 5, 2011
I have a Kubuntu 10.10 install on which I can't update my packages due to some fail conflict between pidgin and pidgin-facebookchat. I can't even remove the stuff via apt-get due to this conflict...
sudo apt-get remove pidgin
Code:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
[Code]...
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May 1, 2010
I am using Ubuntu 9.04. After doing sudo apt-get update When I try to insatll pidgin via terminal it shows: XXX@XXX-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install pidgin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: pidgin: Depends: libpurple0 (>= 1:2.6.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-19ubuntu1.1) but 5.10.0-19ubuntu1 is to be installed E: Broken packages
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Aug 1, 2010
Previously after doing aptitude upgrade, my pidgin seems broken with no gui shown. So I decided to download the latest source from pidgin website and build it from source, but I think I made situation worse because it then complained that ssl lib was needed. Then I removed the libpurple (e.g. aptitude purge libpurple0 libpurple-bin libpurple-dev) and reinstalled pidgin (aptitude install pidgin). Now it shows the error
pidgin: symbol lookup error: pidgin: undefined symbol: purple_media_element_info_get_type
I searched on the internet and can not find a solution. The clues on the internet says that's because the piding I use is the older version of libpurple. But I think I've removed all with purge and reinstalled it. Maybe some legacy binary is referenced. What or where it might be? Or where there may contain related information.
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Feb 21, 2010
I have found Pidgin to be very useful but I am lacking a very essential functionality of SIP based calling.
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Mar 18, 2010
There seems to have been a change in how you add buddies in Pidgin, since I last used Pidgin in Ubuntu. When I open the add buddy window in Pidgin I get the image attached. It allows me to "search" Personal or Ubuntu One from the drop down list, but nothing is ever populated in the main text area. Similarly, when I select a group from the drop down list in the lower right corner, it never selects it. Also when I click "New Person" it simply closes the window without ever adding a new buddy to my buddy list.
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Apr 8, 2010
I recently installed pidgin but its missing the icons for the status of my logon and the status of others. any ideas on how to build a working online/away/busy icon set for pidgin? from what i can tell its probably missing script from somewhere.
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May 29, 2010
No other details necessary.
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Nov 20, 2010
Well this has been going on for five days already, I can't sign in MSN through pidgin it give me this error..
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Jan 11, 2011
Is Pidgin the only multi-client IM Client or is it the most popular? Are there any others?
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Feb 7, 2010
Im using ubuntu 9.10. i resides in a university hostel and using the internet with LAN. i am unable to configure setting for yahoo and msn on pidgin.
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Feb 10, 2010
I've got Pidgin 2.4.1 on my Hardy computer, and I got the 'Off The Record' plugin working with no problems: I went to Tools > Plugins, found 'Off The Record' in the list of plugins and checked the box - and now OTR works.On my Jaunty machine I've got Pidgin 2.5.5 installed - and I can't find the OTR plugin! I go to Tools > Plugins and look through the list, but OTR isn't there!
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Feb 17, 2010
I use Pidgin as my IRC client. I set it to remember my passwords for the #linuxjournal and #ubuntu channels. As you can see in the picture, there is a tab titled Frigg. I don't know if Frigg is a user or bot or channel! How do I prevent it from appearing every time I start Pidgin? I closed it before but then it keeps coming back when I restart Pidgin!
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Feb 20, 2010
I'm having a problem. I cant log in pidgin or emesene or emapthy with a gmail acc in MSN.
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Feb 24, 2010
I use pidgin for IRC regularly and am wondering if there is a way for it to show notifications when others talk?
I have "others talk in chat" selected for the sound notifications, but I'd really like it to use the visual notifications (the notification applet?), like it does when I'm chatting with someone over IM. Is that possible?
I'm running standard ubuntu 9.10
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Mar 5, 2010
I have installed Pidgin and the Facebook Plugin. However is there a bug with it? Because when I try to connect it says it can't retrieve my buddy list. On Fedora 12 this works with Pidgin problems. Is this a bug and is there a work around?
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Mar 9, 2010
I want to add an account in yahoo. I am using Pidgin. How can I add an account(i.e. mail address of friends)
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Mar 9, 2010
My pidgin account can't be opened. Every time I tried to log in, it shows error.What is the problem?
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Mar 19, 2010
Hello, when I log into Aim using pidgin I get this error
"Received unexpected response from http://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession"
I tried using a MSN account to test it out and it works. So AIM does not work. The port is on 5190 so I dont understand what is wrong.
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Apr 10, 2010
Where can I see all the logs of all my chats on Pidgin? I have "Log all instant chats" and "Log all chats", but not "Log all status changes to system log"
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Apr 12, 2010
i use wvdial for internet access. But pidgin does not work in that. Is there anyway i can use pidgin while using wvdial?
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May 23, 2010
Pidgin likes to randomly crash on me, and sometimes it takes me awhile to notice. So I thought why not make a script and cron job to see if pidgin is running and restart it if needed. Sounded easy but having all kinds of problems. Here's my cron line...
Code:
*/1 * * * * /home/justin/chkpdgn.sh >> /home/justin/test.log 2>&1
I run "tail -f /home/justin/test.log" to keep an eye on the cron output.
Here's the chkpdgn.sh script...
Code:
#!/bin/bash
SERVICE='pidgin'
if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null
then
echo "$SERVICE service running, everything is fine"
else
echo "$SERVICE is not running"
$SERVICE
fi
Running that works fine when I do it, but when cron does it pidgin never starts and I get this error...
Code:
pidgin is not running
error: line 15: bad flag alias index: 0
error: line 15: bad flag vector alias
error: line 16: bad flag alias index: 0
error: line 16: bad flag vector alias
That goes on for quite awhile up to like line 60000 and pidgin runs but doesn't show up in the me menu. Any way to restart pidgin when it crashes?
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May 30, 2010
Take a look at the picture. 1 refers to the mail icon, which has pidgin in it (I couldn't screenshot while open for some reason), and 2 refers to the icon that can be clicked which has the capabilities to set "available, away, invisible, etc" and that type of thing. Problem is, I no longer use empathy, I use pidgin instant messenger. Can I use the #2 icon referred to in the picture to control my status for pidgin?
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Jun 1, 2010
There's a new version of Pidgin on the pidgin website but it's not available in the update manager. I've tried checking for updates but nothing... how to install the update? I have downloaded the source from the site "pidgin-2.7.1.tar.bz2" but no idea how to install it.None of the "make" "make install" "sudo make install" or any of that sort works.
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Jun 15, 2010
Pidgin is refusing to flash even after setting the "blink on new messages". I know this was a bug in 2.7.0. Is it fixed in 2.7.1? I tried checking the Message-notification plugin, but no luck. Anybody knows a workaround?
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Jun 22, 2010
i recently lost access to yahoo IM on 2 different computers (one 32-bit and one 64-bit) on both empathy and pidgin. it happened at around the same time on 2 separate machines on 2 separate networks. both gmail and msn will connect using both clients - it's only yahoo that will not connect and i've tried 2 different yahoo accounts, too...
i can still log into yahoo IM on a windows virtual machine and through the web messenger - just not using the ubuntu clients.
could there have been a recent update that may have caused this? i've also heard that yahoo in the past has changed around servers and put in measures to limit usages strictly to yahoo clients.
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Jul 7, 2010
Did the protocol change? I have to restart Pidgin whenever this happens before I can rejoin the room.
(09:51:41 PM) You have been disconnected from chat room !aol://2719:10-4-******.
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Sep 5, 2010
Is there any workaround for Pidgin's "invisible" not working? If I go "invisible" others (on Yahoo accounts) still can see me online, which is pointless, really. I don't have anything checked under Presence settings, so why is invisible VISIBLE?
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Sep 27, 2010
I can't figure out for my life how to turn off notifications in Pidgin Internet Messenger. I have looked all over in the Preferences menu for a way but can't find anything. It is killing me because every time someone logs in to Facebook or MSN or whatever, I get this popup at the top-right corner of my screen.
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