How to reinstall pidgin?

[Ethan Blanton]

Khom Raj Sharma Sharma spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I aam khom and a blind user of ubuntu 9.04 and pidgin.
> 
> I made some mistake while setting up my account in pidgin so it does not work.
> 
> I want to re install it but configuration file does not changed.
> I want it completely new installation with new configuration so could
> you please let me know what can I do?

If you want to destroy and recreate your user configuration, you do
not need to reinstall Pidgin.  Simply remove the ~/.purple directory
while Pidgin is not running, and your user-specific configuration will
be destroyed.

Ethan