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TRAC

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 5

pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

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

krstn

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Registered: 2008-05-26

Posts: 10

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

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.

KurtKraut

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Registered: 2008-03-05

Posts: 17

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

This is only happening here when I try to connect to ICQ. Other protocols does not seem to be affected.

matto

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From: Münster/germany

Registered: 2004-06-03

Posts: 88

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Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

@krstn

thank you very much

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// DAMNiAM //

krstn

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Registered: 2008-05-26

Posts: 10

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

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/

echox

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Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 4

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Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

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

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

It's fixed in version 2.4.3 of pidgin.

Last edited by SiD (2008-07-02 11:53:48)

corrupt

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 74

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

Anyone has PKGBUILD for 2.4.3 ?

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

I used the PKGBUILD from ABS and just edited the pkgver variable.

corrupt

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 74

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

Thanks, man.

Finkregh

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From: Germany/Hannover

Registered: 2007-12-04

Posts: 44

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

an other workaround is to switch to jabber and use an icq-transport

jo3

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Registered: 2007-08-18

Posts: 112

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

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.

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

pacman -Qo /usr/bin/aclocal
/usr/bin/aclocal is owned by automake 1.10.1-2

Have you installed the package automake?

jo3

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Registered: 2007-08-18

Posts: 112

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

Thanks. I hadn't.

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: pidgin/kopete wont connect and reports need of an upgrade

an other workaround is to switch to jabber and use an icq-transport

how?