Re: HOWTO: Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux
You can try to install Yahoo! with wine but there are many bugs involved aparently...I've tried to install that way and I get the program installed but it will not work.
According to the wine website you can get 7.0 installed but it doesn't explain how anyone has managed this...
Anyway I'm going to keep at it and if I find out that I can get it working then I'll let you guys know. :)
oh and here is the link for wine that I found the information on
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=29
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Re: HOWTO: Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux
I changed some dependecies in yahoo messengers package and it will be installed with no problems :)
Re: HOWTO: Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux
Wow, that's cool!!! No way of getting a later version, huh? The big sticking point for me so far is that we hold conferences in yahoo and use voice. I can't do that in linux, so I have to run xp in vmware and run yahoo in it.
Re: HOWTO: Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux
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Originally Posted by
loell
after all the suggestions above, i think you need to dual boot windows , that could be your only last option with yahoo messenger.
Run XP in vmware server, and the latest yahoo works great. All the bells and whistles function. But I still want yahoo mess in linux!
Re: HOWTO: Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux
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Originally Posted by
BLTicklemonster
Run XP in vmware server, and the latest yahoo works great. All the bells and whistles function. But I still want yahoo mess in linux!
:lolflag: you quoted my old post,
but actually, you can do voice with yahoo through ekiga using gtalk2voip,
ekiga to yahoo
i think this is the way to go for others like me, who could not afford a xp license nor the guts to load a pirated xp.
Re: HOWTO: Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux
So does the voice work in a conference in yahoo, or is it like using the voice chat in gyache, which is different?
Re: HOWTO: Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux
Re: HOWTO: Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux
HI, HERE IS HOW YOU INSTALL YAHOO-MESSENGER ON UBUNTU, WITHOUT GOING THROUGH ALL THAT DEPENDENCY HELL ! -
1. user$sudo apt-get install alien #install's alien to convert rpm packages to .deb#
2. user$sudo apt-get install libgdk-pixbuf2 #a package needed by messenger#
3. Download the following - rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm from here - http://messenger.yahoo.com/unix.php
4. user$sudo alien -c rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm #converts it to a debian package#
6. user$sudo dpkg -i ymessenger-1.0.4-i386.deb #installs the package#
8. user$ymessenger #starts yahoo messenger#
I did try all tat and in
4. sudo alien Desktop/rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
since i had the rpm file downloaded on to the desktop.
now after all this when i try to run
8. $ymessenger # on the terminal, i get a message /usr/bin/ymessenger :permission denied...
i even tried by logging on from the root, yet doesnt work...
what should i do...???
Re: HOWTO: Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux
sea@sea-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb
sea@sea-laptop:~$ cd /home
sea@sea-laptop:/home$ sudo dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 107440 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ymessenger 1.0.4_1 (using ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ymessenger ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ymessenger:
ymessenger depends on xlibs (>> 3.3.6); however:
Package xlibs is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ymessenger (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ymessenger
sea@sea-laptop:/home$ sudo apt-get xlibs
E: Invalid operation xlibs
sea@sea-laptop:/home$ sudo dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package ymessenger.
(Reading database ... 107433 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ymessenger (from ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ymessenger:
ymessenger depends on xlibs (>> 3.3.6); however:
Package xlibs is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ymessenger (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ymessenger
ehhh sour grapes?...yeah...spoily grapes
Re: HOWTO: Install Yahoo! Messenger for Linux
Use gaim! ymessenger for linux was abandoned years ago.