Downgrading Pidgin

[Jackelope King]

Edit your /etc/hosts file

sudo gedit /etc/hosts

and you should see first two lines look like

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 hostname

hostname = name of your comp

If you can not use sudo then boot in recovery mode and type

nano /etc/hosts

and when you correct that file save it and close.Now try again to remove package.

I can open the file successfully through the terminal. The first two lines read:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 <computer's name>.Core

Should I delete the ".Core" change that to:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 <computer's name>

Or is there another correction I'm missing?

[zvacet]

hould I delete the ".Core" change that to:

Code:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 <computer's name>

Yes,if that is your comp name.No need for .Core if it is not in your comp name.

[brandon88tube]

May I ask why you are using Pidgin 2.5.4? The newest one and the default one for Jaunty is 2.5.5

[Jackelope King]

May I ask why you are using Pidgin 2.5.4? The newest one and the default one for Jaunty is 2.5.5

Because I'm currently running Intrepid, for which the default is 2.5.2, and a few months ago when I started fiddling around with it, the newest Pidgin was 2.5.4.

[zvacet]

@ Jackelope King

Maybe you want to try newest Pidgin.You can take it from here.

[Jackelope King]

Installed successfully, but the command "pidgin" still brings up 2.5.4, no matter what I do.

Thanks for the help, but I think at this point I need to just throw in the towel and wait a month until I have the time to futz around with a fresh install of Jaunty. For now, 2.5.4 at least is functional, even if the plugins I'd like to use don't work. Ah well.

The moral of the story: if you're going to compile from source, use checkinstall.

[zvacet]

But you told me you used checkinstall.If you didn´t then go to the Pidgin folder from witch you compile and run

sudo make uninstall