Installing pidgin update

[tkdchen]

2010/9/28 Miss Davidson <cbjk20 at gmail.com>:
> Hello
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> My daughter has an elonex onet+ netbook. It came pre-installed with pidgin,
> however we are unable to connect to msn as there is some issue with protocol
> when we try. I have downloaded the updated version (2.7.3) but are unsure
> how to install it.  I am familiar with windows machines but linux is
> completely foreign to me. Are you able to help?
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> Regards
>
> Clair Davidson
>
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According to which distribution your Linux is, updating your system
may be help you to get the latest pidgin.

Debian, Ubuntu: sudo apt-get update
Fedora: sudo yum update