Update to Pidgin 2.7.7

DId you follow the three steps on this link? What happened?

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa to your system's Software Sources.

To do this open the Terminal and type the following:

1. Type: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa
2. Press Return

This will get the GPG key and add the repository to your sources.list

3. Type: sudo apt-get update
4. Type sudo apt-get upgrade

This will update the installed version of pidgin to the current version in the Pidgin PPA (2.7.7 @ Time of writing)

@François Tissandier

Yes I did. It did not work. I installed getdeb with no problems. It did not properly add the getdeb repository. So when I tried to install the newer version it installed the same version.

@John Shortland

Thank you. Worked perfectly.

@COKEDUDE

Glad I could help. I find it better to use the PPA from launchpad for a program I'm using then the getdeb repo's or other 3rd party repo's.

Are the getdeb repo's or other 3rd party repo's buggy or not trustworthy? Or do you have another reason?

I just prefer to use the developers PPA as opposed to 3rd party ones. Had some issue's using deluge from getdeb before and had to get it from the deluge site in the end before the developers could help troubleshoot the problem, Once I got the official deb package the initial problem disappeared.