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Ubuntu 11.10 How to upgrade Pidgin to the latest version

Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time. Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Uprade with this comands : sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin wget -c downloads.sourceforge.net tar jxvf pidgin-2.10.0.tar.bz2 wget -c dl.dropbox.com patch -Np0 -i pidgin_avatars_dont_change.patch cd pidgin-2.10.0 ./configure –prefix=/usr make sudo make install