pidgin-encryption software package provides pidgin plugin that provides transparent encryption, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install pidgin-encryption
pidgin-encryption is installed in your system.
Make ensure the pidgin-encryption package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep pidgin-encryption *
You will get with pidgin-encryption package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Network |
| Package | pidgin-encryption |
| Version | 3.1-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | pidgin plugin that provides transparent encryption |
| Sub Section | Net |