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Upgrading pidgin to 2.5.2 (also GIMP and more) on openSUSE 11.0

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I was reading a thread on the openSUSE forums where someone asked for the newest version of pidgin, but the answers given were quite “blah” to me.

I added posted basiclly this same thing in the thread:

Add the GNOME Community repo:

sudo zypper ar sudo zypper ar Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_11.0 GNOME\ Community GNOME\ Community

Update the pidgin package:

sudo zypper in pidgin

(This is install)
or

sudo zypper up pidgin

(This is update)

Why don’t you just update all the packages included in the GNOME Community repository? Some of the packages in this repository are Tomboy and GIMP. To do this just run:

sudo zypper up -t package -r GNOME\ Community

(note: I am using the Repository name I added with the zypper ar

Tags: 11.0, opensuse, pidgin, tutorial

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