2 posts tagged “debian”

So I made the switch from Debian GNU/Linux to Ubuntu Linux yesterday during my lunch break... It took about 30 min to install and before I knew it I had all my favorite programs set up and everything updated! This would have taken a while, with a lot of configuration, on Debian. So far I'm loving Ubuntu! :D

I used the Debian backports since Pidgin isn't available through the Debian repositories.

Using backports is pretty easy.
1. Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
2. Import the backports archive key into apt with:
wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add -
3. Then update:
apt-get update

Then to install Pidgin use the normal apt-get commands:
sudo apt-get install pidgin

And there you have it. Enjoy :)