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06-05-2003, 02:37 PM
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Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Whangarei New Zealand
Distribution: Slack 8.1
Posts: 300
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yahoo messenger client
whats the best yahoo messenger client available?
i see there is one available from yahoo, but it doesnt support slack.
also i a unsure of the features it provides, ie: voice, video ??
anyone know of a fully featured client?
cheers
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06-05-2003, 02:57 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: earth
Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
Posts: 23,067
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If you find one, tell me ;)
However, the yahoo thing works just
fine in slack, I've got it running.
Cheers,
Tink |
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06-05-2003, 03:46 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,149
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The easiest way I found to install the Yahoo client on Slackware was to convert it from rpm to tar.gz source by using the rpm2targz command...
But I would highly recommend GAIM, which is an all in one type messenger program which can handle Yahoo, AIM, MSN and many others..
But like Tinkster, I don't know of any that support voice or video yet..
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06-05-2003, 03:58 PM
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Registered: Apr 2003
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I agree with all of the above .......im working on a nice messanger now ........if anyone wants to help just e-mail me......
but right now the best choices are kopete for kde3 or gaim....like trickykid said........other than that the options are limited.
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06-05-2003, 04:05 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: The Arctic
Distribution: Fedora, Debian, OpenSuSE and Android
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I use Ayttm (formerly Everybuddy). It connects to AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and a few others. Search Sourceforge for "ayttm" or run apt to get it. It rules..
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06-05-2003, 04:56 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Whangarei New Zealand
Distribution: Slack 8.1
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awesome cheers guys 
would be really kool to get one up and running supporting voice and video! |
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01-08-2004, 10:29 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: The Net
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2
Posts: 24
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Lets see the two stupidist things that I think should be given to linux but the big corpurations won't give us! Shockwave Player & Yahoo with Voice! Why can't they understand that we want these things but without wasting our time with Windows.
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02-16-2006, 12:46 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: London
Distribution: Arch Linux, Debian
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For voice and WebCam support for yahoo messenger you can try gyach :
1. Download http://www.politicalcrossfire.com/te...nstall.tar.bz2 , and save it to your home directory (important!).
2. Run these commands in the terminal, in sequential order:
Code:
tar -xjf gyach-install.tar.bz2
cd gyach
sudo ./install |
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