Which reminds me of an old thread I had with redhat people* If the user says "Please update/remove this package", then after (supposedly) successful operation there should not be leftovers from the old version on the system. Ironically Alan Cox (I bleieve) replied: That's because unix says what you tell it, not what you want...
* will link if I find it Sorry for off topic. Regards, David > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason > Steenstra-Pickens > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 5:28 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Pidgin PPA > > Ended up being a looser error. I had forgotten that the Me > Menu keeps > Pidgin running. Ending the process and restarting Pidgin > solved the problem. > > On 10/08/10 15:04, Daniel Atallah wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 22:36, Jason Steenstra-Pickens > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, > >> > >> I have never built Pidgin from source as it came with my > distribution > >> (Ubuntu 9.10 upgraded to 10.04). I checked /usr/local > anyway and there was > >> nothing in there to do with Pidgin. > >> > >> Executing: > >> $ which pidgin > >> /usr/bin/pidgin > >> > >> Which has not been modified since 02 Jun 2010 > >> > >> Any more ideas? > > Please reply to the list and not to me directly. > > > > Have you added the Pidgin PPA to your package manager (see > > http://pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/)? If not, you will need to to get > > anything newer than what ubuntu shipped your distro with. > > > > Are you sure that you have actually restarted pidgin since doing the > > update (if it is already running, re-launching it will just bring up > > the existing instance (the old version))? > > > > What does `pidgin --version` say? > > > > If that doesn't say you have the latest in the PPA (2.7.1), > what does > > `dpkg -s pidgin` say? > > > > -D > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
