HOWTO: Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux

hi! i'm a new ubuntu 7.10 user and i have basic knowledge on computers. i tried your instructions on my synaptic but it doesnt have a linssl 0.9.6 package in there so i cant install it. it only has libssl 0.9.8. what do i do?

thanks very much.

I have a workaround for this, but you probably won't like it. I installed windows(sorry) in virtualbox and set it to NAT for the network. I can run windows and yahoo messenger from there. The only reason I have done this is because my wife likes to use the audibles to get my attention when i am away at school and I do the same to get her attention when I am on a break and can talk to her.

thanks.i tried qnext but how do you decompress it?i'm using ubuntu 7.10 and i can't find how to decompressit.

would appreciate very much if you could advise step-by-step like a for-dummies thing cause i'm a basic user

thanks again

hi...just for ur info..this version of yahoo messneger is very very very old...i shall say, file transfer dun even work on it! (not compatible with the new messneger 7.5 and above

as such, ur best choice to come closest to yahoo is either Pidgin(previously know as GAIM) or Kopete....

or u could try XP in virtualbox (virtualization) just for the sake of running yahoo in it...sadly webcam wont work like that

yes I do think so.. :)

I have install yahoo messenger of windows version successfully on top of WINE, but I can't login. Does anybody successfully did it ? I still believe the windows yahoo messenger is the best, in gaim I couldn't got to chatroom, not webcam too. Thank you

well, i tried with yahoo viersion 8 and login in, see my fren, can even send flie, but cant type messgaes

Hmmmm.....Very interesting :guitar:

i have ubuntu 7.10 and try to download yahoo messenger

i tried to use the steps under y text but it failed and .
at the forth step i didnt find the ymessenger at the path /usr/bin/

so can any one help me

Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux
1. Install libssl0.9.6 through Synaptic or
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sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.6
2. Download this file from messenger.yahoo.com.

3. In a terminal, write:
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sudo dpkg -i /path/ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb
replacing path with the path to where you downloaded the file.

4. Run /usr/bin/ymessenger and follow the few simple instructions for setting up Yahoo! Messenger. An icon will be placed on your desktop.

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Originally Posted by daredevil

Wit hkopete u can neither send a file nor join a conference. But u can do both with Gaim

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does it support webcam viewings?