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Pidgin Linux Yahoo

Just a quick one for anyone who uses Pidgin on Linux and is having trouble connecting to yahoo, I did the following to get it working again.

change to root.
su -

copy their repository file from http://www.pidgin.im/download/centos_rhel/ for example into /etc/yum.repos.d/

yum remove pidgin
yum remove libpurple
yum install pidgin

The above will re-install libpurple which otherwise conflicts, at least it did for me.

As for windows users just have to download and install the latest version from http://www.pidgin.im/