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pooklaroux · Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 60 Location: Columbus, Ohio

In the last version of 3 I used, I was using Gaim, but I didn't use it for ICQ, just yahoo chat. I installed Dingo on a friend's PC,a nd it works great -- except I can't get her ICQ account to work in Pidgen? Help! It's really important to her! It tells me that "the client version you are using is too old" and it is version 2.4.1, I guess they are on 2.4.3? How t do I update Pidgen?

MU · Posted: Fri 18 Jul 2008, 20:02 Post subject:

icq changed the chat-protocol.
Pidgin 2.4.1 no longer works, you need 2.4.3.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27199

Just install it, it should overwrite the older one.

Mark

tdwadelaide · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 5

Hi.. I've just started using Puppy (first time using Linux too) and one thing I want to use is ICQ via Pidgin.

It worked fine until the ICQ upgrade went through and then stopped logging on. So I upgraded to the latest version, 2.4.3, but now this won't open.

At the end of the install it says some dependencies are missing, but adds the icon to the Internet menu. But when clicking on it, nothing happens.

If I try and run it from the console it says it is unable to find the libxcb-xlib.so.0 library.

Has anyone else had the same problem or know how this can be fixed? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!!

MU · Posted: Sun 20 Jul 2008, 09:51 Post subject:

Welcome to Puppy, tdwadelaide!

Please download the attached archive, and click on it in the filemanager.

Mark

tdwadelaide · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 5

Thanks for the quick reply!

Still isn't working though.. tried installing it again and took a screenshot of petget...

MU · Posted: Sun 20 Jul 2008, 10:19 Post subject:

I see.
I think in Puppy 4, you can also list packages from Puppy 3 in Petget.
There they should be listed.
If not, you still could download and click on them from here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-3/

Mark

tdwadelaide · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 5

Thanks for the link MU.

Installed all those libraries and tested again. It worked!

Thanks so much for your help!!

Many hours of puppying coming up for me Cool

Netsukka · Joined: 06 Aug 2008 Posts: 6

Thx @ tdwadelaide for giving me the link to this topic!

I tried the same way, but I got a problem. I found everything but the libdbus file. Searching for it brought me to this site: http://puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/Libs

There was no pet file with the libdbus, only the libdbus-1.so.3, which I copied to my /usr/lib folder.
But it simply seems to contain the following text: "libdbus-1.so.3.2.0"

Now Pidgin isn't missing any dependencies, when I reinstall it, but it doesn't start either.

MU · Posted: Thu 07 Aug 2008, 07:18 Post subject:

type this:

cd /usr/lib
ln -s libdbus-1.so.3 libdbus-1.so.3.2.0

Mark

Artie · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 446 Location: Norway

I gave up messengers on my pc a while back because of all this trouble and just use http://www.meebo.com.

Artie

Netsukka · Joined: 06 Aug 2008 Posts: 6

@ MU

Thx for the advice, but creating a sym link didn't work for me.
Also trying first to uninstall an then make a clean installation didn't work. Now I have two entries in my startmenue:
'Pidgin Internet Messenger' and 'Pidgin ICQ/YAHOO/IRC/JABBER...' Nothing starts, when i click them. Trying to start it directly in the /usr/bin folder didn't do anything, too.
I'm short before giving up and using meebo, like Artie. For to go, it may be ok. At home, I can use Pidgin with Debian. (But if somebody had a solution, I would give it a try. Wink

)

MU · Posted: Thu 07 Aug 2008, 08:54 Post subject:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-3/dbus-1.0.2.pet

it also should be listed in petget in the puppy3 packages.

And run pidgin from a consolewindow to see, if it still needs something.

Mark

Netsukka · Joined: 06 Aug 2008 Posts: 6

Oh dear!

I found the mistake. Downloaded the dbus earlier, but Pidgin although asked for that lib, so I thought that would be the wrong file. Now I looked in my Opera transfer history and saw that the dbus and tk files weren't downloaded properly (but PETget installed them without any trouble).
I downloaded them again and now it works.

Shame on me. Embarassed

Lorion · Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 3

Hi, i have a new problem: Look at my desktop, the icons (even in the task bar) are GIANT! How can I change this (happend after upgrading to .3)

http://i1.fastup.de/show.asp?file=dektop.png

THX

hayagix · Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 130

Someone mentioned meebo earlier.

I've been using imo.im for the last few months and its pretty good. Secure sessions and it now supports Skype along with the other popular protocols.

https://imo.im/