problems connecting to yahoo server with pidgin under ubuntu
Few days ago I noticed that pidgin is unable to connect to my yahoo account. I decided to have a look at the matter and realized that Yahoo has changed the way of the authentication as part of upgrading their software. pidgin released a new version that uses the new method (2.5.7). so I had to upgrade my 2.5.2 to the latest version. There was something wrong when i tried to follow the instructions on pidgin website. So I went to downloading the source code , following the instuctions in the INSTALL file to compile, build and install pidgin. I needed also to upgrade libpurple to 2.5.7 by: apt-get remove --purge libpurple0 apt-get install libpurple0 Finally, I was able to connect to my yahoo account :)