How to update pidgin the last virsion?

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How to update pidgin the last virsion?

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Yast updates? I have the latest one installed…on my opensuse 11. Should be Yast → Software management
Select by repo and update system. if not use search and type pidgin, then update it.

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well,
i have Pidgin 2.4.1 and i want to upgrade to pidgin 2.5.2
and when i go to yast and then searching for pidgin in updates, i didnt found any updates for it.
i looked for installed items i found it already installed but its the older virsion.
i was searching online for 2 days to get any information before i write this topic but i didnt got what i need.
and if you visite :
Download | Pidgin

you will find :
* Windows
* Source
* Fedora Core
* CentOS / RHEL
so what i suppose to choose, and how to install the package.
by the way iam a new linux user so iam not good in using packages and cant understand what they really means by saying:

in fedora:
To install Pidgin on Fedora Core 4, 5, 6 or 7 save the pidgin.repo file from above in /etc/yum.repos.d/

You can then use “yum install pidgin”, or the Package Manager (pirut) to install Pidgin.

We do not provide packages for Fedora 8 or later. If you use Fedora 8 or later, please wait for the Fedora developers to release updated packages.

in CentOS / RHEL:
To install Pidgin on CentOS 4 or 5, or RHEL 5, save the pidgin.repo file from above in /etc/yum.repos.d/

You can then use “yum install pidgin”, or your favorite package manager, to install Pidgin

To install Pidgin on RHEL 4, add the following line to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources:
yum pidgin http://rpm.pidgin.im/rhel/4/$ARCH

You will also need to install the GPG signing key manually:
rpm --import http://rpm.pidgin.im/RPM-GPG-KEY-pidgin

You can then use “up2date -u pidgin” to install Pidgin.

so please help.

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Hi
You could compile from the source, have a read here;
Tried Compiling Pidgin-2.5.2: Have
Questions
and
Help- Building Pidgin From Source

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #2Help- Building Pidgin From
Source76890) openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 10:54, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.12
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80

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Surprised no one gave you a better answer:

do:

sudo zypper ar Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_11.0 GNOME\ Community

then

sudo zypper in pidgin

That should update it for you… If you wanted to update everything in the new repo (ie GIMP) then do:

sudo zypper up -t package -r GNOME\ Community

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Yea, I tried that… it took 2hours to get all the dependancies… and I still had to skip one… :frowning:

Now I get a PackageKit Error… configure: Failed to cache repo (1).

I tried to uninstall 2.4.x and intall the 2.5.x

now I dont’ have either … grrr

I’ve tried to install from Yast too… not so lucky… yes I did the windows thing & rebooted a couple times too…

arg…

JLH

jhuebner@oldhaus.net

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Here is the rest of the error I’m getting…

There was an error in the repository initialization.
‘install-sh’: Failed to cache repo (1).
History:

  • Project-Id-Version: YaST (@memory@)
    Report-Msgid-Bugs-To:
    POT-Creation-Date: 2008-04-21 18:58+0200
    PO-Revision-Date: 2007-08-22 14:13+0200
    Last-Translator: proofreader <i18n@suse.de>
    Language-Team: English <i18n@suse.de>
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
    Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;
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thanks, i got the update from install software and then update all things for pidgin

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Hi
Try it from the CLI then (console/konsole);


sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper lu
sudo zypper up

The first command refreshes the repositories, the second lists any
updates, the third will apply the updates.

If that doesn’t work a read here;
Package
Manager Cleanup

Note the script has an error, the correct one is here;
SDB:Speed
up Package Manager Stack - openSUSE

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 1 day 3:55, 1 user, load average: 0.60, 0.33, 0.24
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80

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Thanks for the suggestions… I’m still not there… I get these errors now. ???

Repository ‘openSUSE Education’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE BuildService - Games’ is up to date.
Downloading repository ‘configure’ metadata [done]
Building repository ‘configure’ cache [done]
Error building the cache database:
Project-Id-Version: YaST (@memory@)
Report-Msgid-Bugs-To:
POT-Creation-Date: 2008-04-21 18:58+0200
PO-Revision-Date: 2007-08-22 14:13+0200
Last-Translator: proofreader <i18n@suse.de>
Language-Team: English <i18n@suse.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;

Skipping repository ‘configure’ because of the above error.
Repository ‘openSUSE-11.0-Debug’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE-11.0-Updates’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE-11.0-Non-Oss’ is up to date.
Downloading repository ‘install-sh’ metadata [done]
Building repository ‘install-sh’ cache [done]
Error building the cache database:
Project-Id-Version: YaST (@memory@)
Report-Msgid-Bugs-To:
POT-Creation-Date: 2008-04-21 18:58+0200
PO-Revision-Date: 2007-08-22 14:13+0200
Last-Translator: proofreader <i18n@suse.de>
Language-Team: English <i18n@suse.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;

Skipping repository ‘install-sh’ because of the above error.
Repository ‘openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE-11.0-Oss’ is up to date.
Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error.

There was an error in the repository initialization.
‘install-sh’: Failed to cache repo (1).
History:

  • Project-Id-Version: YaST (@memory@)
    Report-Msgid-Bugs-To:
    POT-Creation-Date: 2008-04-21 18:58+0200
    PO-Revision-Date: 2007-08-22 14:13+0200
    Last-Translator: proofreader <i18n@suse.de>
    Language-Team: English <i18n@suse.de>
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
    Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;

I’ll re-read your suggestions and se if I missed something, but I just cut/pasted the commands you quoted.

any help is highly appreciated!

JLH