Downgrading Pidgin

[Ethan Blanton]

Sameer Bhiwani spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I currently have Pidgin 2.5.1 and want to install 2.3.1 as it supports
> connecting to multiple XMPP servers with the same login/password. Not sure
> why this functionality was dropped int he newer releases.

What do you mean, here?  Pidgin has never supported using the same
user at host pair on more than one XMPP server, and all versions of
pidgin support using differing user at host pairs on different XMPP
servers.

> In any case, is downgrading as straight-forward as upgrading?
> 
> When I try to install the older version it expects me to uninstall the newer
> one, but I am afraid I will lose my current preferences and chat logs - is
> this the case?

You will not, but I strongly suspect you don't want or need to be
doing this.

Ethan

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