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Up lately i wasn't able to log into my yahoo! account through pidgin, i wondered why, so i asked Nilesh the reason? He probably ran down a search on Google to find a suitable answer to this and discovered over it that it was because Yahoo! recently announced that they have disabled support for older versions of
Yahoo Messenger(S), hence this resulted in broken functionality in third party messenger products like pidgin, telepathy etc.

pidgin 2.5.5 no more supports Yahoo Protocol due the above reason.

Due to which, the pidgin team worked out a solution and patched a update to solve the problem, pidgin 2.5.7 will not have the issue.

To get pidgin 2.5.7 on Debian systems, this is what you have to do.

One will have to setup a PPA, after which pidgin updates will show up in Update Manager along with other usual updates.

copy-paste the commands below to set up the PPA,

1)

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \     67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8

2)

. /etc/lsb-release

3)

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \     $DISTRIB_CODENAME main | \

    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list

Source for PPA setup