Sameer Bhiwani spake unto us the following wisdom: > I currently have Pidgin 2.5.1 and want to install 2.3.1 as it supports > connecting to multiple XMPP servers with the same login/password. Not sure > why this functionality was dropped int he newer releases.
What do you mean, here? Pidgin has never supported using the same
u...@host pair on more than one XMPP server, and all versions of
pidgin support using differing u...@host pairs on different XMPP
servers.
> In any case, is downgrading as straight-forward as upgrading?
>
> When I try to install the older version it expects me to uninstall the newer
> one, but I am afraid I will lose my current preferences and chat logs - is
> this the case?
You will not, but I strongly suspect you don't want or need to be
doing this.
Ethan
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