[FDOM] opkg install pidgin fails with 'An error occured, return value: 2.'

[Robin Paulson]

2008/10/31 Tim Churchard <thespacemonkey66 at yahoo.co.uk>:
> So my questions are:  What's happened for opkg to give a return 2?  And
> where should my /etc/opkg/*conf files be pointing?

i'm pretty sure that means it isn't found in the repo, at least under that name