Pidgin 2.7.* - gtalk sasl2

[wwwauthor]

thought I'd mention this in case anyone else experienced same issues.
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prior too "pidgin 2.6.*"  sasl2 plugins were not used so google-talk(gtalk) worked without issues.
"pidgin 2.7.0" now uses as far as i could tell the sasl2 login plugin and maybe a few others.

so with that all said:
$ su -
#(root password)

$ apt-get install -y --force-yes cyrus-sasl libsasl2-plug-*

and presto pidgin 2.7.0 google-talk(gtalk) works again.

further information on setting up the account is as follows:
Accounts > add or modify > xmpp or googletalk
Username: your account name
Domain: gmail.com
Resource: Home
Password: your password

click Advanced Tab:

• Require SSL/TLS
• Force old (port 5223) SSL

[  ] Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams
Connect port: 443
Connect server: talk.google.com
File transfer proxies: proxy.eu.jabber.org

click save and you now have google-talk(Gtalk)

[Rokixz]

Without creating another topic, I had an issue with pidgin. When I'm being idle, away button appeared, everything's ok, but when I'm back to my pc, the away button still remains.

[wwwauthor]

Rokixz not sure if it was intentional in design or not but it does remain idle until you send a message to someone.
for myself I prefer this method because often i am quite busy between the pc and other duties, which would change the status "idle", "here", "idle", "here".

[gdschut]

I posted about it in another topic.
For me I found a workaround in using pidgin 2.6.4
Installed it from the PCLOS package from the 2009.2 release :-)
By extracting the package and replacing the files yourself, the packaging system still thinks 2.7.0 is installed, so you wont be bothered with unnecessary updates :-)
Read about it in http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,71683.0.html
Regards,
Gerben