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If your Sametime contacts appear/update slowly in Pidgin you probably need to update sametime library.

Christoph Lukas has compiled patched sametime library which can be found here:

https://launchpad.net/~christoph-lukas/+archive/other/+packages

Direct link to 32-bit .deb package
Direct link to 64-bit .deb package

Exit Pidgin and replace existing library. I replaced the symbolic link and left original library in /usr/lib

ar vx libmeanwhile1_1.0.2-3*
tar xvfz data.tar.gz
sudo cp usr/lib/libmeanwhile.so.1.0.2 /usr/lib/libmeanwhile.so.1.o.2.patched
sudo ln -fs /usr/lib/libmeanwhile.so.1.o.2.patched /usr/lib/libmeanwhile.so.1

Start pidgin and your sametime should be fixed now

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