Pidgin not working today

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Thursday, November 13, 2014 a las 09:10:03PM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió:

> I followed a hint in this page:
> 
> http://messengergeek.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/most-third-party-messenger-clients-have-gone-offline-temporarily/
> 
> and changed the ID to "484AAC02-7F59-41B7-9601-772045DCC569", recompiled
> pidgin 2.10.10 from the official sources and it works again.

A short note on this for Ubuntu or Linux users (I normally use FreeBSD):

I've compiled Pidgin on the Ubuntu 14.04 laptop of my wife and it turned out
that the normal Ubuntu distribution of Pidgin is installed below
/usr/lib, while your compilation from source will end up below
/usr/local/lib; especially the libpurple.so will be in the way and your
new compiled Pidgin will not work with MSN until you 'atp-get remove ...'
pidgin *and* the libpurple packages.

HIH 

	matthias
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