Finally we have voice and video support in pidgin. It had always been so hard to understand why it is taking them so much time to implement it. Better late than never.
The new pidgin (version 2.6.1) has been released with media support in linux only at the moment. It was done by someone as summer of code project. You can find the list of new features and the whole story about it on their site.
Now coming to the real point. As soon as found out about this release it soon tried installing. Now the issue is that it had been released as source and though it works perfectly on most distros, it wasn't working on ubuntu 9.04 (working with earlier versions) . The problem was that jaunty isn't having the right versions of libraries needed to compile it and so the debs available on the net didn't install pidgin with voice and video support.
But things move fast in the open source world ... someone managed to compile it successfully on jaunty and has added it to ppa.
So here are the instructions:
To add the sources, go to the main menu, click System, then Administration, then Software Sources. Click on the Third-Party Software tab, then click the Add button.
Paste Code:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kalon33/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Click Add Source, then click the Add button again and add the PPA:
Code:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/korin43/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Close that window then open up a terminal and put this in:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install pidgin
This is it. It should work now :)
3 comments:
in my ubuntu don't have software Sources menu in administration. what will i do now?
You can add sources through synaptic package manager too
Got it.. You must be using 10.10. It has been hided .. follow the instructions given here under the section "Adding Repositories in Ubuntu"
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
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