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Latest Pidgin and Firefox repositories for Ubuntu Hardy

May 23rd 2008 in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Hardy ships with Pidgin v2.4.1 and Firefox 3.0 Beta5, while the latest Pidgin is v2.4.2 and the latest Firefox is 3.0 RC1. Here are two repositories that would always contain the latest versions of Pidgin and Firefox. Just type “gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list” into the terminal, and add the following to the end of the file.

For Pidgin:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ubuntu hardy main

For Firefox:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/ubuntu hardy main

After adding the lines, just type “sudo apt-get update” and then “sudo apt-get dist-upgrade” in the terminal (apt will give a warning about unauthenticated packages, but its safe to ignore the warning and type “y”). After doing this, you should have the latest versions of both Pidgin and Firefox 🙂

19 comments to...
“Latest Pidgin and Firefox repositories for Ubuntu Hardy”

Manas
wrote on May 23rd, 2008

Thanks a lot…. This was much needed. 🙂

kalpik
wrote on May 23rd, 2008

I knew this would help many people 🙂 You are welcome Manas 🙂

Voldy
wrote on June 12th, 2008

thks man..

Elli
wrote on June 25th, 2008

Brillian! Thanks so much!

m0m0
wrote on July 2nd, 2008

Great idea! Are you updating regularly? 2.4.3 is out (already installed it manually, but I prefer reps obviously).

kalpik
wrote on July 2nd, 2008

Hey!

Just to let you know, im not maintaining these repos.. They are maintained my the pidgin development team 🙂

Jj
wrote on July 3rd, 2008

Do you know what key should I add so apt can authenticate the packages?

kalpik
wrote on July 3rd, 2008

Hay Jj!

Im afaraid launchpad ppa packages are unauthenticated. There is no key that can make those errors go away 🙂 But all packages are safe, you can be sure of that 🙂

RuleMaker
wrote on July 22nd, 2008

Thanks a lot!

stylefrizz
wrote on August 13th, 2008

this works great. thank you!

billy
wrote on September 2nd, 2008

pidgin 2.5.1 …? is this repo still being updated or what?

kalpik
wrote on September 2nd, 2008

It usually takes a few days before a new version comes into the repo, so please be patient 🙂

billy
wrote on September 16th, 2008

im still not getting it…

Rebelchild
wrote on October 20th, 2008

Thanks man, it worked perfectly! Although at first I thought it didn’t work. But I always confuse ‘update’ and ‘upgrade’ so I made a typo. So everybody who has the problem that it doesn’t work, try copy-pasting the things up here in the terminal first.

kalpik
wrote on October 20th, 2008

Good to know this still helps people! I myself have moved on to a better distro (arch) 🙂

TureGod
wrote on November 14th, 2008

To disable the unauthenticated warning

sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade -y –allow-unauthenticated

while “upgrade” only upgrades, “dselect-upgrade” installs new packages if required

-y answers “yes” to simple questions like “xxx Mb of disk space will be needed…”

–allow-unauthenticated can be used only with the option “-y” and disables the unauthenticated warning. You could use “–force-yes”, but that would be far more dangerous ‘cos it answers “yes” to EVERY question

Tweakwindows
wrote on November 25th, 2008

Good information.In fact excellent! Thanks for this.

jalksdjfldsaf
wrote on January 16th, 2009

Fyi, these PPAs are outdated

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