Ubuntu :: Can't Update Packages Due To Some Fail Conflict Between Pidgin And Pidgin-facebookchat
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:
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
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.
It seems that I will get slackware working fine, just the way I want, and after I turned it off and turned it back on, Firefox and Pidgin refused to run because something was missing that was there before.
After uninstalling them both, and then realizing that the package was somehow uninstalled without me knowing, I reinstalled it in case anything else needed it. That was yesterday, and now today I woke up and started the computer, trying to use Konqueror. Strangely, there's no wireless internet, so I tried to use wicd and it just doesn't start. I try again from the terminal and I get this:
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ImportError: /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2: undefined symbol g_variant_new_double So I went and used slackpkg and it seems that libdbusmenu was uninstalled too. I really don't understand what's going on here. It's pretty annoying because without wicd I can't even use an ethernet connection, so the computer is basically useless to me at this point.
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.
does anyone knows if an update of pidgin will appears on the 13.1 branch ? I guess it will be updated on the -current branch but for now there's that SSL certificate error that flood the screen with popups...
Running 12.2 on fluxbox, it seems the latest pidgin update has messed with my dock icon- it's no longer the pidgin icon, now I believe it's a generic one. It's not REALLY a big deal, but it kind of bugs me...
I have just upgraded to Lucid on Ubuntu. I am a long time Pidgin user. I tried using Empathy with Gwibber, but I can't get Gwibber to update my IM status(es) in Empathy, so I want to go back to using Pidgin. (Additionally, I can't get Skype to work with Empathy.)I installed pidgin-microblog and pidgin-mbpurple, and they allow me to view my Twitter feed in Pidgin and update my Twitter status in Pidgin. However, in Karmic, I was also able to specify certain "status availabilities" (one named "Twitter-Available" and one named "Twitter-Away", for instance) to have the IM status message for these statuses become populated with my Twitter feed. This capability seems missing in pidgin-mbpurple in Lucid (and it seems to be the only thing missing from Karmic).
Is there a way to have pidgin-mbpurple update certain "status availabilities" in Lucid (and I'm just missing something) or is this no longer possible?Equivalently, is it possible to have Gwibber update my status message in Empathy? (I just want to be able to update my status once on one of my three computers - and have it propagate to all my other accounts (IM and social networking) and computers).
I have not been able to update in over a month. I get a message that says "Local file conflict between packages" When I click on More Details, I get:
Test Transaction Errors: file /etc/fonts/conf.avail/25-unhint-nonlatin.conf from install of fontconfig-2.7.1-1.fc11.x86_64 conflicts with file from package fontconfig-2.6.99.behdad.20090508-1.fc11.i586 file /etc/fonts/conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf from install of fontconfig-2.7.1-1.fc11.x86_64 conflicts
I was assigned to do all the RHEL5 updates. All installed fine including the new kernel except for the updated libX11 and python packages. Does anyone have any suggestions relating to a fix for this?
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?
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.
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.
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!
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!
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 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?
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"
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?
