On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:19:03 +0530, santo wrote:

> I did some googling but could not find anything useful...the only thing
> close to my problem was an error connections following the avatar icon I
> added to my profile...some guy had problems connecting to yahoo after
> adding it...but no use...
>
> it would never occurr to me to type "pidgin changed yahoo"
>
> ...thanks anyway, it turned out I had to change the page server...now it
> works fine again...

Well I am surprised. Looking at
http://www.nabble.com/-Cooker--Re%3A...d24133371.html
would seem to indicate you would need a later release because of yahoo changes.
Looking though mirror indexes would show you might have to look in
backports for a new release.

main-2009.0.idx:pidgin-client-2.5.1-4mdv2009.0.i586.rpm 58552 Oct 02 2008
main-2009.1.idx:pidgin-client-2.5.5-5mdv2009.1.i586.rpm 60710 Apr 23 19:48
main_backports-2008.0.idx:pidgin-client-2.5.1-1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm 66801 Sep 01 2008
main_backports-2008.1.idx:pidgin-client-2.5.6-1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm 74647 May 21 20:45
main_backports-2009.0.idx:pidgin-client-2.5.7-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm 60875 Jun 21 10:55
main_backports-2009.1.idx:pidgin-client-2.5.7-1mdv2009.1.i586.rpm 61293 Jun 21 10:25
main_testing-2009.1.idx:pidgin-client-2.5.5-7mdv2009.1.i586.rpm 61024 Jun 05 09:25
main_updates-2008.1.idx:pidgin-client-2.5.5-0.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm 74163 Mar 21 12:30
main_updates-2009.0.idx:pidgin-client-2.5.5-0.1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm 60140 Mar 21 12:34
main_updates-2009.1.idx:pidgin-client-2.5.5-6.1mdv2009.1.i586.rpm 60960 May 19 08:24