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Updating Yahoo Messenger on the EEEPC
10/21/09
About a month ago Yahoo changed something on the Yahoo Messenger servers that stopped the version of Pidgin which is installed on my EEEPC 701 from connecting. Asus has stopped updating the software for the version of the EEEPC I have and after some fruitless Google searching for a prepackaged solution I was prepared a few weeks ago to bite the bullet and install the Linux development tools on my EEEPC that would allow me to compile the latest version of Pidgin so I could use it on my EEEPC.
I decided to give Google one more try and the people at EEEUser Forum came through for me again with and updated .deb package for the EEEPC. I'm not sure the precise query I used but the only way for me to find it again was to search for the package that I downloaded and installed. Installing the update was quick and painless and soon my EEEPC was back happily connecting to Yahoo Messenger.
To download the updated pidgin.db package click the link pidgin-2.6.2-4.deb.
One you download the file to your EEEPC updating pidgin is as simple as opening a terminal window by typing CTRL-ALT-T and entering the command
sudo dpkg -i pidgin_2.6.2-4.deb
another option is to right click on the file in the file manager and choose the "install deb" option.
If you get an error message you may have to remove the previous version of pidgin first by entering
sudo apt-get remove pidgin pidgin-data libpurple0
Good luck and happy chatting.
5 comments
Thank you; it works. Little precision: you must be in the directory that contains pidgin_2.6.2-4.deb before you type CTRL-Shift-T. In my case it was in the /tmp folder… (I used CTRL-Shift-T and not CTRL-ALT-T)
Though I knew the trick, but still thanks from all those who didn’t knew how to update yahoo on eee.
Hey great info, will help a lot to advanced my own asus eee pc.
Its good that EEE has a great power to chat as it has a huge battery backup. Great device.
nice post…this post provides a great information ,it will help me in future to have any problem with asus eee pc.
