Fedora Core Pidgin missing SSL

[Stu Tomlinson]

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 22:03 -0400, Ren Fur wrote:
> I used to be able to log onto Google Talk with gaim-1.5.0-15.fc5.i386, but 
> using gaim-2.0.0-0.beta6.fc5.i386 and now pidgin.repo, when I try to log 
> onto Google Talk I get:
> 
> "Server does not use any supported authentication method"

You are probably missing the necessary Cyrus SASL mechanism plugins. I
have added cyrus-sasl-plain & cyrus-sasl-md5 to the RPM Requires for the
next release.

If you install the above RPMs Pidgin should start working for you.

Regards,


Stu.