# Pidgin 3 on Flathub Beta
**URL:** https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-on-flathub-beta/230
**Category:** Pidgin
**Tags:** news, announcement
**Created:** [January 2, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-on-flathub-beta/230 "2025-01-02T22:09:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-on-flathub-beta/230/1 "2025-01-02T22:09:58Z")
As mentioned in [Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-experimental-1-has-been-released/227), 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](https://flathub.org/setup) for that.
To double check that you have Flatpak setup properly run the following command:
```plaintext
flatpak remote-list
```
If you see either of these lines you should be good.
```plaintext
$ 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.
```plaintext
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:
```plaintext
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:
```plaintext
flatpak run im.pidgin.Pidgin3
```
Let us know if you have any questions or comments!
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### Author:  [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-on-flathub-beta/230/2 "2025-01-02T23:54:20Z")