I’ve been having some issues with Pidgin on my Ubuntu desktop since I upgraded recently. No matter what happens it seems to be using a lot more CPU than I would like as well as crashing randomly.
In order to fix this I’m currently trying a different installation method which has been provided by the Pidgin developers:
Ubuntu ships Pidgin but does not update it after a release (except for security issues). For those users who desire new releases of Pidgin, we have packaged Pidgin in a PPA. If you encounter problems with these packages, try building from source and report the bug.
To setup the PPA, copy-and-paste these commands into a terminal:
sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \
67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8
. /etc/lsb-release
echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \
$DISTRIB_CODENAME main | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.listOnce this PPA is setup, Pidgin updates will show up in Update Manager along with the usual Ubuntu updates. The PPA will need to be re-setup only after upgrading Ubuntu.
Whether this installation method will rectify my CPU spikes issues or not remains to be seen, but I’m willing to try just about anything at this juncture!
maybe you want to remove the spaces at the beginning of the lines, so that we can c&p this stuff? ‘coz it seems to be useful, i hate to search a new .deb everytime icq changes one bit in the protocol…