Upgrading from GAIM
I've been using GAIM 1.5.0 for some time (it came with my copy of Puppy Linux) and have been quite content with it. Up until now, I've seen no reason to upgrade to Pidgin. I am presently running Puppy Linux 3.01. Now there's a reason. I'm getting messages from Yahoo! that support (I presume protocol support) for the "Yahoo! Messenger" (hee hee hee) I'm using expires August 15. I'm presuming Pidgin will take me back into the "supported" realm, and have installed it. However, I've not seen any notes on how to make moving to Pidgin an actual upgrade in the sense of my accounts, settings, logs and such from GAIM being imported into Pidgin. May I simply drag-n-drop my GAIM data directories' content into the corresponding Pidgin data directories, or is more required? Are there things that have changed so much (such as the settings files) that I cannot simply use the GAIM files, but have to set it up from scratch? Any help along this line will be appreciated. The 15th is only 3 days away! Thanks, Mike Webb ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: Upgrading from GAIM
Mike Webb wrote: > Any help along this line will be appreciated. The 15th is only 3 days away! Be sure and locate then Back-Up accounts.xml and then store the backup copy some place SAFE. This file contains all Your Contacts/Buddies, etc. JOHN ;) Timestamp: Wednesday 12 Aug 2009, 19:50 --400 (Eastern Daylight Time) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: Upgrading from GAIM
Mike Webb wrote: > However, I've not seen any notes on how to make moving to Pidgin an > actual upgrade in the sense of my accounts, settings, logs and such from > GAIM being imported into Pidgin. May I simply drag-n-drop my GAIM data > directories' content into the corresponding Pidgin data directories, or > is more required? Are there things that have changed so much (such as > the settings files) that I cannot simply use the GAIM files, but have to > set it up from scratch? Upgrading from 1.5.1 or earlier is seamless. Just back up .gaim before running Pidgin for the first time in case you run into some weird case we weren't able to test when we wrote the migration code. John signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: Upgrading from GAIM
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Mike Webb wrote: > I've been using GAIM 1.5.0 for some time (it came with my copy of Puppy > Linux) and have been quite content with it. Up until now, I've seen no > reason to upgrade to Pidgin. I am presently running Puppy Linux 3.01. > > Now there's a reason. I'm getting messages from Yahoo! that support (I > presume protocol support) for the "Yahoo! Messenger" (hee hee hee) I'm using > expires August 15. I'm presuming Pidgin will take me back into the > "supported" realm, and have installed it. > > However, I've not seen any notes on how to make moving to Pidgin an actual > upgrade in the sense of my accounts, settings, logs and such from GAIM being > imported into Pidgin. May I simply drag-n-drop my GAIM data directories' > content into the corresponding Pidgin data directories, or is more required? > Are there things that have changed so much (such as the settings files) that > I cannot simply use the GAIM files, but have to set it up from scratch? > > Any help along this line will be appreciated. The 15th is only 3 days away! > > Thanks, > Mike Webb Pidgin attempts to migrate all your settings from Gaim. So you shouldn't need to do anything special--your settings and accounts should all be imported automatically. -Mark ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: Upgrading from GAIM
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:59:17 -0700 > From: Mark Doliner > Subject: Re: Upgrading from GAIM > > Pidgin attempts to migrate all your settings from Gaim. So you > shouldn't need to do anything special--your settings and accounts > should all be imported automatically. Thanks for your quick responses. Since the settings and all were not imported from GAIM when I started (all I get on Pidgin startup is a prompt to set up accounts), I presume that the .pet file (Puppy Linux' distribution file) simply dumped the program files into the appropriate places and did not run an install routine. So I'm back to where I started. The program is in place, but no data has been copied/converted/moved/whatever from GAIM. In a regular Pidgin install routine, would the files simply be copied from .gaim to .pidgin? I note that there is presently a /root/.gaim directory but not a /root/.pidgin directory. I'm presuming that I will need to move the data over manually, but don't know if importing is a simple drag-and-drop or if there is a file format conversion involved. Where do I go from here? If someone's able and willing to walk me thru the process off-list, I'd appreciate it. I have AIM, Y!M and MSN accounts so we could talk thru any of them. Thanks again! ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: Upgrading from GAIM
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Mike Webb wrote: >> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:59:17 -0700 >> From: Mark Doliner >> Subject: Re: Upgrading from GAIM >> >> Pidgin attempts to migrate all your settings from Gaim. So you >> shouldn't need to do anything special--your settings and accounts >> should all be imported automatically. > > Thanks for your quick responses. Since the settings and all were not > imported from GAIM when I started (all I get on Pidgin startup is a > prompt to set up accounts), I presume that the .pet file (Puppy Linux' > distribution file) simply dumped the program files into the > appropriate places and did not run an install routine. So I'm back to > where I started. The program is in place, but no data has been > copied/converted/moved/whatever from GAIM. > > In a regular Pidgin install routine, would the files simply be copied > from .gaim to .pidgin? I think it's a bit more complicated than that, but I don't remember the specifics. > I note that there is presently a /root/.gaim > directory but not a /root/.pidgin directory. The new directory is ./root/purple Also, it's generally suggested that you use root only when needed, and to log in as a normal user the rest of the time. Using root makes it more likely that an accidental or malicious command could break something on your system. > I'm presuming that I will > need to move the data over manually, but don't know if importing is a > simple drag-and-drop or if there is a file format conversion involved. > Where do I go from here? If someone's able and willing to walk me thru > the process off-list, I'd appreciate it. I have AIM, Y!M and MSN > accounts so we could talk thru any of them. Thanks again! If you haven't configured anything in Pidgin yet, you can try exiting, deleting your current /root/.pidgin directory, then starting Pidgin again and letting it import from the now existent /root/.gaim -Mark ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: Upgrading from GAIM
Oh, heh heh, should have cc'ed the support list. My bad :-P -Mark On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Mark Doliner wrote: > I'm guessing you're just not using a recent enough version of Pidgin. > Yahoo changed their protocol recently and we had to change Pidgin to > allow it to continue to work. Pidgin 2.5.8 should work. I'm > surprised that Gaim still connects. > > Also, please cc the devel mailing list on replies, so other people can > help and so future generations of users can benefit from the questions > and answers. > > -Mark > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Mike Webb wrote: >> Hello, Mark. I tried the "delete .purple and launch Pidgin" route, and >> it MOSTLY worked, except that I couldn't connect on the Y!M (Yahoo! >> Messenger) protocol. It still works fine (for now) with GAIM, but acts >> like it's trying to connect but failing on Pidgin. So I'm close, but >> no banana. >> >> BTW, I'm aware of the issues involving logging in as root. That >> happens to be the default in Puppy (it autologs me in) and I've never >> been up to messing with it. I may be installing Xubuntu in the near >> future, in which case I'll be setting up a root and a user account. >> >> Next idea? Thanks. >> >> One more thing; when it installed, it did come up with a whole mess of >> missing dependencies. I'm not sure how serious those are; I had the >> same result when installing Firefox 3.5, but it's not given me a lick >> of trouble. >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Mark Doliner wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Mike Webb wrote: >>>>> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:59:17 -0700 >>>>> From: Mark Doliner >>>>> Subject: Re: Upgrading from GAIM >>>>> >>>>> Pidgin attempts to migrate all your settings from Gaim. So you >>>>> shouldn't need to do anything special--your settings and accounts >>>>> should all be imported automatically. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your quick responses. Since the settings and all were not >>>> imported from GAIM when I started (all I get on Pidgin startup is a >>>> prompt to set up accounts), I presume that the .pet file (Puppy Linux' >>>> distribution file) simply dumped the program files into the >>>> appropriate places and did not run an install routine. So I'm back to >>>> where I started. The program is in place, but no data has been >>>> copied/converted/moved/whatever from GAIM. >>>> >>>> In a regular Pidgin install routine, would the files simply be copied >>>> from .gaim to .pidgin? >>> >>> I think it's a bit more complicated than that, but I don't remember >>> the specifics. >>> >>>> I note that there is presently a /root/.gaim >>>> directory but not a /root/.pidgin directory. >>> >>> The new directory is ./root/purple Also, it's generally suggested >>> that you use root only when needed, and to log in as a normal user the >>> rest of the time. Using root makes it more likely that an accidental >>> or malicious command could break something on your system. >>> >>>> I'm presuming that I will >>>> need to move the data over manually, but don't know if importing is a >>>> simple drag-and-drop or if there is a file format conversion involved. >>>> Where do I go from here? If someone's able and willing to walk me thru >>>> the process off-list, I'd appreciate it. I have AIM, Y!M and MSN >>>> accounts so we could talk thru any of them. Thanks again! >>> >>> If you haven't configured anything in Pidgin yet, you can try exiting, >>> deleting your current /root/.pidgin directory, then starting Pidgin >>> again and letting it import from the now existent /root/.gaim >>> >>> -Mark >>> >> > ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
