Gaim 1.5 Needed

[Luke Schierer]

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On Aug 22, 2009, at 13:56 EDT, Daniel Atallah wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> 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 
> .

You are correct, I guess I just thought that if the differences in UI  
are to be all that severe, you'd have to go back much further.

Luke


>
>>
>> On Aug 22, 2009, at 12:01 EDT, Michael Wolf wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>

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