A few days ago, I’ve been having difficulties when logging in to yahoo messenger with pidgin. After several hours of investigating and googling. It turns out that yahoo are changing their protocols. The temporary solutions is change the Pager Server to cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com or cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com.

If you are using Ubuntu Linux, you can fix this problem by upgrade your pidgin installation to the newest version. The easiest is by try this solution.

Open the terminals, type this:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \
    67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8

. /etc/lsb-release

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \
    $DISTRIB_CODENAME main | \
    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list

Then update the repository:

sudo apt-get update

Last, upgrade the pidgin:

sudo apt-get upgrade

That’s it.

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