Upgrade your pidgin to 2.6.1 version

Pidgin 2.6.0 was made available a few days ago and now Pidgin 2.6.1 was released as a bug fix version to the new stable 2.6 series. Among the features and improvements which come with 2.6.0 are:

- several changes and bug fixes in libpurple, the library used by Pidgin for its various chat protocols
- various DNS fixes
- AIM and ICQ fixes
- Gadu-Gadu fixes
- MSN new features, like support for receiving audio clips, support for receiving handwritten messages, many other fixes
- lots of XMPP fixes and improvements, like voice and video support with Jingle or the Service Discovery Browser plugin
- Yahoo! fixes and improvements
- Finch and the Pidgin GTK+ Theme control plugin also received improvements

To install Pidgin 2.6.1 in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope from the Pidgin developers PPA on Launchpad, just follow the instructions below:

Step 1:
Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file with text editor (gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list) and add the following two lines:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

and save the file.
Step 2:
Add the trusted key for this repository:

aryan@aryan-laptop:~$gpg --keyserver http://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys A1F196A8
aryan@aryan-laptop:~$gpg --export A1F196A8 | sudo apt-key add -

Step 3:
Update the packages lists:

aryan@aryan-laptop:~$sudo apt-get update

Step 4:
The next step is to uninstall your currently Pidgin installation:

aryan@aryan-laptop:~$sudo apt-get remove --purge pidgin

Step 5:
And the last step is just to install Pidgin 2.6.1 from the newly added repositories:

aryan@aryan-laptop:~$sudo apt-get install pidgin

*******************This should be all set to your new Pidgin*************************