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Pidgin on Debian Not installable?

Guys: For the past month or so, I've been unable to get Pidgin to stay on my system.

I've been trying several debian based distros for the past two months, so I can solve two problems; Debian 7.5, to 8's KDE is so buggy as is unuseable and I don't want to wait a year or more to get a more updated version.

Also I've been wanting to go completely 64bit and 64bit Debian is equally a pain in the tail. I started on 7.5, and it's upgraded to v8 but KDE still won't work well so I'm oving to another distro.

I've tried SoyadDKDE, Kubuntu, Linux Mint Debian Edition, and now just Linux Mint KDE and all have the same problem. After an upgrade, pidgin is removed, siting depdency problems.

This is unacceptable, I have to use Pidgin in my work, and not being able to keep it is making it very difficult.

How can I resolve this problem? I've been hearing reports that Debian is imploding, so is several distros bsaed on it (see above). Pidgin is impossible to install via source code, and there isn't any .DEB to use. Should I just wait a bit, use something else until Pidgin is working again? Or is there a way to install an old version, via a repository?

Are these the problems you are talking about?

Quote:

~$ aptitude -s install pidgin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gstreamer0.10-alsa{a} gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg{ab} gstreamer0.10-nice{a}
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad{a} libcdaudio1{a} libfarstream-0.1-0{a} libgssdp-1.0-3{a}
libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0{a} libgupnp-1.0-4{a} libgupnp-igd-1.0-4{a} libnice10{a}
libpurple-bin{a} libpurple0{a} libslv2-9{a} libzephyr4{a} pidgin pidgin-data{a}
0 packages upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.1 MB of archives. After unpacking 46.4 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg : Depends: libavcodec53 (>= 5:0.8-2~) which is a virtual package. or
libavcodec-extra-53 (>= 5:0.8-2~) which is a virtual package.
Depends: libavformat53 (>= 5:0.8-2~) which is a virtual package.
Depends: libavutil51 (>= 5:0.8-2~) which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg [Not Installed]

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
2) pidgin recommends gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Have you tried Kopete?
jdk

Results from;

Code:

apt-cache policy pidgen

Edited for this thread for just version number;
Sqeeze = Candidate: 2.7.3-1+squeeze4

Wheezy = Candidate: 2.10.10-1~deb7u1

Jessie = Candidate: 2.10.11-1

Sid = Candidate: 2.10.11-1

These all come from the "main" repo.

Have you checked you /etc/sources.list for some error? Tried a different mirror site?