Pidgin 2.0.1 for Debian Etch and Ubuntu Feisty
Pidgin is a GTK+ instant messaging application for Windows and Unix. It supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE and more. See http://pidgin.im/about.php for more information.
Download deb from here
then just install pidgin and pidgin-data
dpkg -i /home/andy/stuff/pidgin_2.0.0_i386.deb /home/andy/stuff/pidgin-data_2.0.1-1_all.deb