Install Yahoo Messenger on Linux

[Harshal Shah]

Dear VGLUG Members

I found way to install Yahoo on any Linux, check it out for yr linux.

Description & Instructions are as belove.



System Requirements

The Linux version of the Messenger runs on the Intel chipset and has been tested on RedHat 6.2,7.2 and 8 and 9; Debian Woody

The FreeBSD version of the Messenger has been tested on FreeBSD 4.5.
Software Requirements: These packages require X Windows, GTK 1.2 or greater, openssl 0.9.6 or greater and gdk-pixbuf 0.8.0 or greater

Please Note: If you are running a Unix system other than those listed above, you may not be able to run Yahoo! Messenger.

Feedback
Note: If you have any feedback, please write post comments and thoughts at:
Unix Yahoo! Messenger group

Security
Note: You can use the md5sum utility to verify the correctness of the downloaded file. The checksums are provided with each file.

GtkHTML Library:

This client uses an un-GNOMEified version of GtkHTML 0.8, which is under the LGPL.

How To Install

To install the Unix version of Messenger:

RedHat Linux:

   1. Save the appropriate file listed below to your machine.
          * RedHat 6.x (837b5919bffabae74386bcbc2a602daf)
          * RedHat 7.x(8d6ebad8eee0260ef9f53a535ced5f68)
          * RedHat 8.0(c1c43d6dde97d2bad13140b25b044d98)
          * RedHat 9(325e37fe50a7beb32d740da5d7467751)
   2. Log in as root and type
      rpm -i <filename>
      with the appropriate filename depending on your version to install the application.
   3. Run /usr/bin/ymessenger from X Window to launch the application.

Debian Linux:

   1. Save the file (8343187bc62cd9522d8e05995adbcfdf) to your machine.
   2. Log in as root and type
       dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb
      to install the application
   3. Run /usr/bin/ymessenger from X Window to launch the application.

FreeBSD Installation

   1. Save the file (112b96f083e77ecbd9398831e38a0c25) to your machine
   2. Log in as root and type
      pkg_add fbsd4.ymessenger.tgz
   3. Run /usr/bin/ymessenger from X Window to launch the application.

Upgrading your Client

If you are upgrading your client from a previous version of Yahoo! Messenger, please remove the older version first before installing this version.

In addition, due to changes in the base libraries, please rename the preferences file in the directory $HOME/.ymessenger from
.ymessenger/preferences to .ymessenger/preferences.old

The new client will automatically configure your setup. You will not lose any offline or archived messages in this process.

[Jigish Gohil]

On 10/11/06, Harshal Shah <harshals...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear VGLUG Members
>
> I found way to install Yahoo on any Linux, check it out for yr linux.
>

We now do not need yahoo messenger from yahoo anymore on Linux, we use
gaim : http://gaim.sourceforge.org. As you can see, yahoo messenger
has not been updated for a very long time, last distribution it
supported was redhat9 which is now obsolete.

Gaim also comes for windows.

We can also use Kopete, which does video chat too.

Both the above messengers act as a client for multiple accounts of
google talk, yahoo, msn, irc, icq, novell etc. and tons of other IRC
clients comes packaged with most distributions.

Happy chatting

-J