Official MxitPC on Ubuntu

[Centaur]

You can maybe try forcing it to update to a different version, in synaptic. You can also try to force it to unistall completely and install it from a third party repository like getdeb (if you have international cap - however their server is down at the moment http://blog.getdeb.net/2010/05/web-site-and-archive-down-again.html ) or you can use Pidgin's PPA ( http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/ )

Mint 9 comes preinstalled with Pidgin, so maybe that is why his works.

 

[foozball3000]

From what I found online, it does seem that you're right in that I'll have to force install it. Sigh... I'm not up for that today.
Maybe I should upgrade my Mint to 9...

 

[Asha'man X]

Mxit PC on Windows is built pretty much through and through with .NET, so unless Wine supports .NET 3.5, the client is unlikely to work. My colleague at work tried it and it didn't work for him, with Ubuntu 9.10. Pidgin works fine as far as I know.

 

[hawker]

From what I found online, it does seem that you're right in that I'll have to force install it. Sigh... I'm not up for that today.
Maybe I should upgrade my Mint to 9...

You could just download the plugin source and compile it quickly. I've done it a few times.

Make sure you have a package called purple-dev installed before you begin.

Download the source from the website, extract it, run the 2 or 3 commands in the readme and it works.

This is of course, the alternative to installing a new version of pidgin. My method will simply had the protocol support to the older versions of pidgin.