How would I install this patch for GAIM??
 

Here it is: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...76&atid=632506

How would I got about using this?

Help apreciated...thanks.

Move the patch to the top level of the gaim source, then:
should do it.

Where would the gaim src file be?

At the end of a google serch for gaim ;)

Uhh..I actually did try that, but the source directory for gaim...wouldn't it be different for each distro? I'm using fedora...and can't seem to find it...I know the gaim executable is in /usr/local/bin though...

if gaim came with your distro, youll need to download the source from the gaim site, extract it, patch it, compile it and install it. probably follows the pattern:
[download and cd to directory containing source tarball]
tar -zxf gaim-<version>.tar.gz OR tar -jxf gaim-<version>.tar.bz2
patch -p0 -i patchname
cd gaim-<version>
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
rm -r gaim-<version>

Source code is source code, it has nothing to do with your distribution. Building from source will create a brand new gaim executable for you to put in your /usr/local/bin directory. Download the source, patch it, and follow drigz's advice.

or you could just

apt-get update
apt-get install gaim

... but I assume your not running debian... shame really :S hehe... ending my plug for debian....

Supposedly gaim 0.79 has the fixed yahoo protocol in it, but I have not tried it. Perhaps youcould install that rather than patching.