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Ubuntu 9.04 Pidgin status change not working properly

Asked by BrattJon

I have just updated to Ubuntu 9.04 and now the Pidgin status can't be changed from the "Switch Users or Shutdown" menu, it worked from Ubuntu 8.10
I can change my status from within the Pidgin drop down menu, but not the Ubuntu menu, the status displays correctly if I change it in Pidgin.
version of pidgin is 2.5.3
I'm new to Ubuntu and updating to 9.04 prob wasn't a good idea since I had 8.10 running fine, but any help would be appreciated.

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#1

Ubuntu 9.04 is still alpha software and is not stable. the latest version of pidgin is 2.5.4 you can try upgrading to that to see if it helps.

http://www.pidgin.im/download/

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BrattJon (brattjon) said : 		#2

Thanks for the reply, I had already looked at ugrading Pidgin to 2.5.4 but wasn't sure which link to take from that site, there's no option that says linux or ubuntu download, so do I need to download source version, if so how do I install from that ?

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#3

maybe this will help:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

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