Upgrading from GAIM

[Mark Doliner]

Oh, heh heh, should have cc'ed the support list.  My bad :-P

-Mark

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Mark Doliner<mark at kingant.net> wrote:
> I'm guessing you're just not using a recent enough version of Pidgin.
> Yahoo changed their protocol recently and we had to change Pidgin to
> allow it to continue to work.  Pidgin 2.5.8 should work.  I'm
> surprised that Gaim still connects.
>
> Also, please cc the devel mailing list on replies, so other people can
> help and so future generations of users can benefit from the questions
> and answers.
>
> -Mark
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Mike Webb<weeble7591 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello, Mark. I tried the "delete .purple and launch Pidgin" route, and
>> it MOSTLY worked, except that I couldn't connect on the Y!M (Yahoo!
>> Messenger) protocol. It still works fine (for now) with GAIM, but acts
>> like it's trying to connect but failing on Pidgin. So I'm close, but
>> no banana.
>>
>> BTW, I'm aware of the issues involving logging in as root. That
>> happens to be the default in Puppy (it autologs me in) and I've never
>> been up to messing with it. I may be installing Xubuntu in the near
>> future, in which case I'll be setting up a root and a user account.
>>
>> Next idea? Thanks.
>>
>> One more thing; when it installed, it did come up with a whole mess of
>> missing dependencies. I'm not sure how serious those are; I had the
>> same result when installing Firefox 3.5, but it's not given me a lick
>> of trouble.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Mark Doliner<mark at kingant.net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Mike Webb<weeble7591 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:59:17 -0700
>>>>> From: Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net>
>>>>> Subject: Re: Upgrading from GAIM
>>>>>
>>>>> Pidgin attempts to migrate all your settings from Gaim.  So you
>>>>> shouldn't need to do anything special--your settings and accounts
>>>>> should all be imported automatically.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your quick responses. Since the settings and all were not
>>>> imported from GAIM when I started (all I get on Pidgin startup is a
>>>> prompt to set up accounts), I presume that the .pet file (Puppy Linux'
>>>> distribution file) simply dumped the program files into the
>>>> appropriate places and did not run an install routine. So I'm back to
>>>> where I started. The program is in place, but no data has been
>>>> copied/converted/moved/whatever from GAIM.
>>>>
>>>> In a regular Pidgin install routine, would the files simply be copied
>>>> from .gaim to .pidgin?
>>>
>>> I think it's a bit more complicated than that, but I don't remember
>>> the specifics.
>>>
>>>> I note that there is presently a /root/.gaim
>>>> directory but not a /root/.pidgin directory.
>>>
>>> The new directory is ./root/purple  Also, it's generally suggested
>>> that you use root only when needed, and to log in as a normal user the
>>> rest of the time.  Using root makes it more likely that an accidental
>>> or malicious command could break something on your system.
>>>
>>>> I'm presuming that I will
>>>> need to move the data over manually, but don't know if importing is a
>>>> simple drag-and-drop or if there is a file format conversion involved.
>>>> Where do I go from here? If someone's able and willing to walk me thru
>>>> the process off-list, I'd appreciate it. I have AIM, Y!M and MSN
>>>> accounts so we could talk thru any of them. Thanks again!
>>>
>>> If you haven't configured anything in Pidgin yet, you can try exiting,
>>> deleting your current /root/.pidgin directory, then starting Pidgin
>>> again and letting it import from the now existent /root/.gaim
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>>
>>
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