installing yahoo messenger for linux...?

[riddler6002]

i tried opening the file, following extraction, in the terminal.. there is no "configure" or "make" files in any of the folders.. or even a "read me" file for that matter.. anyone know how to do it? thanks.

[vincent]

http://in.docs.yahoo.com/messenger/down ... tml#debian

The .deb file you downloaded can be installed with Gdebi, i.e. just open up your file browser and double click on it.

[riddler6002]

thanks buddy!

[riddler6002]

sorry man, i guess i'm doing something wrong... when i type what i was told to from the yahoo link you gave me, and after opening the extracted yahoo folder in terminal i get: dpkg: error processing ymessenger_0.99.17-1_i386.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
ymessenger_0.99.17-1_i386.deb


confused??

[tdockery97]

Yahoo Messenger for Linux is an old old old old old package that I could never get to work either. Better to just use Pidgin. Works good.

[mastablasta]

Pidgin (as suggested above) is the most compatible with yahoo messanger. however you will still be missing plenty of functions available in Yahoo messanger. there is no cure for that because yahoo decided to stop the Linux development long time ago.

You win some but you also lose some by using Linux....

[abercrombieande]

This is old but you can try http://www.technixupdate.com/download-y ... g-support/

1. Install libssl0.9.6 through Synaptic or type the following on the terminal

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sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.6

2. Download this file from messenger.yahoo.com.
3. In the terminal, write the following command

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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 instructions to setup Yahoo! Messenger.

[proxima_centauri]

Or you can try an alternative yahoo client gyachi, it has webcam support. This may be easier than trying to get, what appears to be outdated, versions of yahoo messenger working.

To try it out, open a terminal and add the PPA Launchpad repository

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:loell/ppa

Then install

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apt update && apt install gyachi

[mastablasta]

Or you can try an alternative yahoo client gyachi, it has webcam support. This may be easier than trying to get, what appears to be outdated, versions of yahoo messenger working.

really? have you tried it?
and gyachi is not obsolete with it's last update 3 years ago?

[proxima_centauri]

Or you can try an alternative yahoo client gyachi, it has webcam support. This may be easier than trying to get, what appears to be outdated, versions of yahoo messenger working.

really? have you tried it?
and gyachi is not obsolete with it's last update 3 years ago?

I'm guessing you're using the sourceforge site for the basis of your opinion.

No I haven't tried it, but I have seen success with users who it is suggested to.

In any case, gyachi's last update available via ppa is v1.2.9, released in or sometime before July 2010. There are also newer development builds available.

[mastablasta]

interesting. will have to give it a try then... i have a heavy Yahoo messanger user at home... so Pidgin was fine, but maybe giyachi would give better experience...

[riddler6002]

i dont know...gyachi wont even configure for me.. terminal keeps on telling me to read the install.txt file and i'm just like "{whatever". im so inexperienced it really starts to get on my nerves because i cannot get anything to run on linux for the life of me. can someone , in an absolutely detailed manner, explain to me how to install this gyachi? im losing my mind here.....

[proxima_centauri]

i dont know...gyachi wont even configure for me.. terminal keeps on telling me to read the install.txt file and i'm just like "{whatever". im so inexperienced it really starts to get on my nerves because i cannot get anything to run on linux for the life of me. can someone , in an absolutely detailed manner, explain to me how to install this gyachi? im losing my mind here.....

Did you try my instructions above?

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 23#p328605

[caprus]

@ proxima_centauri

While trying to load Gyachi on Mint 10 I've just used your directions with no luck either.

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# add-apt-repository ppa:loell/ppa

Appeared to complete successfully

#

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 apt update && apt install qyachi

(All went well for a while until these errors popped up.)
              
Hit http://packages.linuxmint.com julia/import i386 Packages
Fetched 89.8kB in 2s (32.9kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/loell/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/loell/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package qyachi

It looks as if the Maverick repo's have been taken down for some reason.

BTW: My wife has been using OpenSuse for a couple of years now and has been using Gyachi on it for some time now, most recently with ver. 1.2.2. (Too bad no sound though). We just switched her over to Mint 10 to resolve a couple of issues that I'd been unable to fix. So far we're very impressed. All the things I'd hoped to fix worked right away with no tinkering in Mint. Gyachi is the only thing we haven't been able to get installed.

[proxima_centauri]

That's correct, doesn't appear to be a repo for Maverick.

A quick google search revealed this -> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1592540

Another repo is hosting gyachi for maverick

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:adilson/experimental
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gyachi

[caprus]

Unfortunately:

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# apt-get install gyachi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gyachi

[proxima_centauri]

Appears to work for me in my Virtual Machine, did you remove the previous PPA?

[caprus]

Appears to work for me in my Virtual Machine, did you remove the previous PPA?

Yes, I did without any success that way, but I just found this blog post with instructions for a successful install, and Gyachi 1.2.9 is now up and running.
http://blog.sudobits.com/2010/10/24/how ... ntu-10-10/
Thanx for your time and help!

UPDATE: I was loading another PC today and couldn't find a 64bit Gyachi package, so I decided to try the ppa:adilson/experimental repo again this time it worked beautifully (v.2.9.10 64 bit). Perhaps the server was down last time or something.