As mentioned in Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released!, we were in the process of getting Pidgin 3 up on Flathub Beta. Well, the good news is that it is there now!
To get started with it please make sure you have Flatpak already up and running on your system. If you’re not sure how to do that check out the official documentation for that.
To double check that you have Flatpak setup properly run the following command:
flatpak remote-list
If you see either of these lines you should be good.
$ flatpak remote-list
Name Options
flathub system
flathub user
If you only have the user line, be sure to follow the note about passing --user to the install command below.
As previous mentioned, Pidgin 3 is using Flathub Beta not the normal Flathub repository. This is because it isn’t even technically beta software yet and isn’t ready for the main Flathub repository yet. What this means is that you have to add another remote to be able to install it.
To add the Flathub beta repository you can use the following command. If you want to use this as just your normal user, be sure to add the --user flag in the command line, but note that you’ll need the flathub remote as a user repository as well.
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
Once that’s done you can install with the following command:
flatpak install im.pidgin.Pidgin3//beta
Once it’s done, it should show up in your applications menu/launcher/whatever or you can run it manually with:
flatpak run im.pidgin.Pidgin3
Let us know if you have any questions or comments!