I am sure Linux probably does not support AOL or MSN Instant Messenger...but is there an Instant Messenger program that you can run with Linux and still be able to talk to your friends who use those programs?

you obviously don't hold linux with much regard! why can't it do msn? i use gaim with yahoo, icq and msn plugins, and it works perfectly. there are also many other chat clients like imici, everybuddy and a number of jabber based IM's like Gabber and Psi that let you sue which ever protocol you want.

sorry i must bow down before your eminance....lol

just kiddin acid.... remember me? lol

anyways thanks for the post now i shall try to use those other IM clienst you mentioned... also yahoo messenger has an IM for Linux? i will be sure to try it out

Yup, Yahoo IM and AOL IM both have Linux versions that work well.

--Tom

thatnks for the help 70kgman! I just installed Yahoo messenger and am now looking for AIM...

I noticed that some of the features for ymessenger are diferent than its Windows counterpart...any reason maybe why?

heyheyhey buddy boy.. i said.. try using GAIM. it does ALL IM's in one program, and does it really well.

mostly the reason would be that the version for linux is not at the same level as the version for Windows.

As ymessenger is a yahoo product, and I do not think it is free or open source, the only way that it will be brought current is if there are demands into Yahoo to makd the software current.

The GAIM client noted earlier may provide a better feature set however, so take a look at that.

that made good sense... yahoo messenger no doubt is not open source....

one of the features of yahoo messenger with windows is the fact that you can access chat rooms with it... a feature that is sorely missing in the linux version... still i will give gaim a try...

thanks for the help

i use a program called 'gyach' for yahoo chat, works ok, looks as dumb as the rest of yahoo

i have downloaded gyach....

i ran a ./confiure then tried:



[root@localhost gyach-0.7.5]# ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
[root@localhost gyach-0.7.5]# make
bash: make: command not found
[root@localhost gyach-0.7.5]# ./install-sh*
install: no input file specified
[root@localhost gyach-0.7.5]# install-sh* start
bash: install-sh: command not found

where did i go wrong with it?

well basically, you didn't install any of the developemnet programs, you need to install gcc and all of it's dependencies, which iwll be quite a lot, rpmdrake should sort thewm all of for you. alternatively just use an rpm

http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2htm...hp?query=gyach

what is gcc and what exactly does it do? or you dont have to go into a ton of detail...

thanks acid

gcc is a compiler program... go here for everything about it: http://gcc.gnu.org/