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Pidgin Add Buddy Disabled

Asked by pranathi

Hello All ,

I have recently installed Pidgin and I am using Office communicator protocol. I am successful in creating account . But the problem is I am unable to add buddies. "Add Buddy" Tab is disabled in the window and I am unable to add Buddies to the list . Can anyone help me in resolving this

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Pranathi

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy pidgin

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pranathi (rohini-dr) said : 		#2

This is the output i got from it

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
Linux pranathi-desktop 2.6.32-50-generic #112-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 9 20:28:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
pidgin:
  Installed: 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.6
  Candidate: 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.6
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.6 0
        500 http://10.9.64.81/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://10.9.64.81/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://10.9.64.81/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Lucid is no longer supported in any way. It is EOL. I suggest you wipe Lucid off and perform a clean install of Trusty. Trusty is LTS and supported til April 2019

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