Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: pidgin Issue Date: May 12, 2008 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2008-05-12-51 1. Topic Updated pidgin packages are available. 2. Problem There were various issues related to pidgin. 3. Solution a) Updating via yum We suggest that you use the yum program to keep your system up-to-date. The following command(s) will retrieve and install the fixed version of this update onto your system: yum update b) Updating manually rpm -Fvu [filenames] ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/ yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/finch-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/finch-devel-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/libpurple-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/libpurple-devel-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/libpurple-perl-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/libpurple-tcl-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/pidgin-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/pidgin-devel-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/pidgin-perl-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 6.0] 0baf9ac3045feffabe8aca099ae6ae56 finch-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm 5ae069abebebc0dce78f351b28a7a402 finch-devel-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm 5a1dfbdeb89610b2b182c60344b603ac libpurple-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm 52b220ebd242fae4e4886b70faac208b libpurple-devel-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm b638ae4099918a0111c786d10371dc22 libpurple-perl-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm 112e512968eeaeedbbe458fd061022f7 libpurple-tcl-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm ce7dc5629a9b0eebb1283b5bf451a61a pidgin-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm cade3131f63ee34715164430b15771e5 pidgin-devel-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm 1dc1763cb46b0945423e294abe1f45b2 pidgin-perl-2.0.2-3.ppc.rpm 276874b9cf23b26e8615a0c9842b3f11 pidgin-2.0.2-3.src.rpm If you wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine the md5sum with the following command: md5sum 5. Miscellaneous Terra Soft has setup a moderated mailing list where these security, bugfix, and package enhancement announcements will be posted. See http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/ for more information.