pidgin for Ubuntu

Looking to install pidgin 2.2.0 on Ubuntu Feisty ?

Remove your old version using sudo apt-get remove gaim

Download Pidgin from Getdeb

and

Pidgin Data files

and use sudo dpkg -i <>

Getdeb - the latest Ubuntu packages

The official Ubuntu policy is that you don't get newer packages unless its a critical bug fix. So, the good folks at Getdeb thought that they would give the latest deb packages.

So if you wanted Pidgin for your Ubuntu installation and all the related Pidgin packages, you just go in here, get the packages and install it - simple isn't it ?