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hey im looking for a certain yahoo! messenger for linux mandrake…can anyone help me find one, i looked at the messenger page but there wasnt one in there, and the one they have in there doesnt work properly with mandrake..please help:(
billihttp://download.yahoo.com/dl/unix/linux/md8.1/ymessenger-0.99.19-1mdk.i586.rpm
That one is a bit older than the latest release, and was for mandrake 8.1. You might give it a go though. Looks like they have stopped supporting mandrake now though. That’s Yahoo!, stop supporting one of the most easiest and most used distributions, and continue one for the more complex and outdated debian! (and who uses freebsd:p)
Ok, i got it, and i downloaded it, and it installed…what do i do from there? cause i cant seem to find it to open it…much less, i cant run it…please help…:(
thanksI can’t remember?
Run “updatedb” then “locate ymessenger” to try and find where it’s hiding.
Or maybe ymessenger is already in /bin?
Somebody said that for mandrake 9.0, the RED HAT 7 version works fine, so try this:
http://download.yahoo.com/dl/unix/rh7.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
Download that in linux.
Run this command at a bash prompt: rpm -i rh7.ymesseger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
Then run: /usr/bin/ymessenger
If you use KDE, press F12 then type that in, you can start from a bash prompt in a shell, but it will use that shell up.
More info at this Yahoo! Group to suggest that RED HAT 9 version will work for mandrake 9.0 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ymessenger/message/152
There is also gyach, 3rd party client for Linux
Download 0.9.4 from here: http://www4.infi.net/~cpinkham/gyach/
Save the file somewhere, /usr/src/ or similar
Extract the archive: tar -zxvf gyach-0.9.4.tar.gz
Change into the dir: cd gyach-0.9.4
Let it configure: ./configure
Make: make
Install: make installthere should be instructions to it in the readme file: less README
:DHey there:
I’m new to this group, but I think that I may have a suggestion that works. I usually toggle between the ymessenger issued by Yahoo! and Gaim, depending on whether I wanna chat with those I know with M$N Me$$enger. Since Yahoo! changed their authentication, the 0.99.xxxxx release would not work. I got the new 1.0.4.xxx whatever for Red Hat 9. It installed like a jiff on Mandrake 9.1. I had the same problem that I had with all previous versions of ymessenger in that the fonts were microscopic. There is an easy fix for that on the bottom of the page at http://freshmeat.net/projects/ymessenger/?topic_id=20 . Now my Yahoo Messenger is as good as the Windows version (just no resource-hogging ImVironments. ;)). One thing I had to do was to find the icons a dn create my own desktop shortcut for Gnome and for the menu (but Menudrake works very well) BTW the path to yahoo messenger, if you don’t have and hints is /usr/bin/ymessenger. Type it in and get started! :-D. Remember that if you have an old version to rename your .profile so that a new one can be generated, or it’ll segfault. They put that instruction in for a reason.
Cheers!
Corey
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