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Hey,
my pidgin does report a strange "you have to upgrade" message for the last few hours. Seems like the guys from icq.com changed a bit in the servers. I found the following thread concerning kopete: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165502#c26
In pidgin you can do a similar trick:
Change the following source file:
/var/abs/extra/pidgin/src/pidgin-2.4.2/libpurple/protocols/oscar/oscar.h
look out for:
#define CLIENTINFO_PURPLE_ICQ { \
"Purple/" VERSION, \
0x010a, \
0x0014, 0x0034, \
0x0000, 0x0bb8, \
0x0000043d, \
"us", "en", \
}
change it to:
#define CLIENTINFO_PURPLE_ICQ { \
"ICQ Client", \
0x010A, \
0x0006, 0x0000, \
0x0000, 0x17AB, \
0x00007535, \
"us", "en", \
}
recompile and reinstall pidgin. Then change your protocoll from aim to icq and it should work. Well, at least for me it does. ^^
- good luck, trac
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For those lazy guys i created an archlinux-package containing the patch above.
http://disposed.de/PKGBUILD-pidgin.tar.gz <- if you want to compile it yourself
http://disposed.de/pidgin-2.4.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz <- if you put some trust in my work it was compiled with the pkgbuild above
x86_64-package will also soon be available.
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This is only happening here when I try to connect to ICQ. Other protocols does not seem to be affected.
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KurtKraut: Right.
That's because ICQ changed the behaviour of their servers.
The authentication string that your client sends to the icq-servers is no longer accepted.
For that reason, i created a package with a patch i found here: http://www.joeterranova.net/2008/07/01/ … or-pidgin/
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For those lazy guys i created an archlinux-package containing the patch above.
http://disposed.de/PKGBUILD-pidgin.tar.gz <- if you want to compile it yourself
http://disposed.de/pidgin-2.4.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz <- if you put some trust in my work it was compiled with the pkgbuild above
The binary pkg works fine and seems not to contain any backdoors ;-)
thx for your work
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It's fixed in version 2.4.3 of pidgin.
Last edited by SiD (2008-07-02 11:53:48)
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Anyone has PKGBUILD for 2.4.3 ?
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I used the PKGBUILD from ABS and just edited the pkgver variable.
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Thanks, man.
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an other workaround is to switch to jabber and use an icq-transport
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I used the PKGBUILD from ABS and just edited the pkgver variable.
I just tried that and I get a build error.
PKGBUILD: line 31: aclocal: command not found
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Line 31 in PKGBUILD is:
aclocal || return 1
What do I need to build this? Thanks.
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pacman -Qo /usr/bin/aclocal
/usr/bin/aclocal is owned by automake 1.10.1-2
Have you installed the package automake?
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Thanks. I hadn't.
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an other workaround is to switch to jabber and use an icq-transport
how?
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