bugmenot wrote: > Yes, I just checked it. I renamed my .purple and started pidgin and > .purple and the file was created new... Can you remove --purge pidgin > and try again? Or did you already try that? > OK, it's working, thanks very much! What I did was:
1) In synaptic, mark for complete removal 'pidgin', 'libpurple0'. It also marked a number of other packages. Ran the removal. 2) 'ls -lR' / and look for pidgin and purple. There were a number of files and links in /usr/local/lib like 'libpurple.so*'. Evidently I *did* try to install pidgin from source at some time, but I don't recall it! I can't think of any other way that the files and links could have got there. 3) dpkg -l. In spite the 'complete removal' pdkg said that there were config files still around! (Status rc) I ran the dpkg --purge and that sorted that. 4) Reinstalled pidgin and libpurple0 and it worked! My guess is that the problem was resolved in step 2, but I can't be sure. Many thanks for your help, and please close the bug report as, I suppose, user error. Cheers, Cliff -- Pidgin fails to start after upgrade to Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303063 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
