Gaim 1.5 Needed

[Daniel Atallah]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 13:46, Luke Schierer<lschiere at pidgin.im> wrote:
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> I do not know where you might be able to find a .deb of 1.5.x but you might
> be able to get away with running alien on the .rpm package that RedHat has
> of 1.5.x.
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> Alternately, the sources are in monotone in the  im.pidgin.gaim.gtk1-stable
> branch.

I think Luke meant the "im.pidgin.gaim" branch, but easier than that
you can download the "Pidgin 1.5.1" tarball from sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/Pidgin/1.5.1/pidgin-1.5.1.tar.bz2/download.

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> On Aug 22, 2009, at 12:01 EDT, Michael Wolf wrote:
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>> I am disabled,with cognitive and anxiety issues.  One thing I have
>> discovered is that new isn't always a good thing, especially for something
>> that is important.  Instant Messenger is perhaps my most important piece of
>> software as it allows me to socialize safely where I normally can't
>> otherwise.
>>
>> But I am unable to work comfortably with Pidgin.
>>
>> I recently transitioned my computer from Windows to Linux, but am
>> transitioning myself by installing my same version of Windows in a Virtual
>> Machine.  As I cannot use Pidgin because the interface is too different
>> (just know that I am disabled, and there is significant difficulty
>> attempting to adjust, so much so that I cannot), I am relegated to keeping
>> my VM open and on the desktop at all times so that I can socialize.  But I
>> don't want to operate soley in Windows.
>>
>> The only solution is for me to acquire a copy of GAIM 1.5, or even 1.3.1
>> which I currently use, for Linux, preferably a .deb package.  If anyone has
>> access to the source code and can build a package or provide a copy to me so
>> I can try to build one, or perhaps has a .deb package of GAIM 1.3.1. or 1.5;
>> please let me know.
>>

We really can't recommend that you use an old version though - there
are some known security vulnerabilities and several of the protocols
will not work.

-D