cant get msn/yahoo messenger to work on gaim
 

I have the libmsn and libyahoo plug-in loaded, but cant sign in on. If anyone could give some advice I would be very thankful.

AIM works fine, jsut cant get the others...thanks :)

sounds like you got an old version of gaim. on Oct 15. m$ changed their login protocol. yahoo changed theirs about the same time too. right now gaim is at version .75 so you should probably use that. if you are using the newest version, it may be a missing SSL dependancy, but i doubt that since you wouldn't be able to compile or install gaim if that was the case.

thanks so much mega.....do you know how i can find out what version I currently have? ....also, what is the best way to update gaim? I

I dont see a version of .75 for redhat 7.2...any ideas?
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

thanks again :)

it tells me protocal not supported when i try to log in....not sure what that means


should i use the redhat 8 file from that download list?

if you could, you can IM me on gaim, AIM- "jugaloop"

i have mandrake 9.2 and also mandrake cooker which is dated dec 31 2003 and mine does the same thing. ive also tried updating gaim thru mandrake update and it didnt work

well, im glad im not the only one :)

my wife is away right now, and she uses MSN....so I have to boot in windows to communicate with her. I wish I could get this msn on Gaim working

try downloading the the *.src.rpm file. in the console su into root, navigate to where you downloaded the rpm, and use this command:

rpm --rebuild gaim*.src.rpm

it will build you 2 rpm files in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 you can navigate there and install them.

I have RedHat 9, and I just download the rpms, and run
rpm -Uvh gaim**
What distro are you using again?

his profile says redhat 7.2 and there's no rpms for that distro. he/she either has to compile it from source or rebuild the source rpm.

Oh, I need to put that information in my profile.

Can you not use other rpms on different distribution versions. For instance, I spent two days trying to install Realplayer on RH 9. Then I read a post that you can use the RH 8 rpm on RH9. Bam, I can now watch my NewEngland Patriots Video News on realplay!!!

What are the restrictions on this?

i haven't gotten any of the redhat 8 or 9 ones to work. the problem being mostly older libraries. but i've successfully built every single source rpm from gaim.

i cant get AMSN to install

root@ToR:~# tar xvf amsn-x_xx.tar
tar: amsn-x_xx.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
root@ToR:~# tar xvf amsn-x_xx.tar
tar: amsn-x_xx.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
root@ToR:~#


how can i get it to work?

u could use kopete its like gaim but it works :)

http://kopete.kde.org/

yup pete works good for me so far