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I had been using gaim for chat in yahoo.
but it's about 2 weeks that it doesn't work. ymessanger under windows worked but .....
i am using gaim 0.68
has anyone any idea
Yahoo! just changed the setup to use SSL and upgraded all of their software. If you're not using a patched version or an upgraded version of the software it won't connect.
I believe GAIM is working on a solution but it's not out yet, as far as I know. Also, .69 is the latest release... that may work. I'm having trouble installing so I'm not sure.
hmm... did you have gaim open when you tried to install? Maybe file couldn't overwrite one or something...
here's my history of how I installed it...
1009 tar xjvf gaim-0.70.tar.bz2
1010 cd gaim-0.70
1011 ls
1012 ./configure
1013 make
1014 make install
try it again... it won't hurt anything...
Ok I just re-ran everything, this time making sure GAIM was closed. After 'make install' was finished I typed 'gaim' & it opens but in the Help>About it still says 0.59.8.
Great. Not sure what I did but this time when I opened it all of my config stuff is gone. I have to re-setup all my accounts, plugins, etc. Jeeez. I must have screwed up something.
Should I be running / compiling from a certain location? As of now I just unpacked it in my personal directory ~/user.name/downloads/gaim-70/
I run everything from that point & as far as I can tell it installs fine.
I run the installation (./configure, make, make install) as root. After that I exit (su -) and run 'gaim' as myself. Still no luck.
I have a directory I download to (/downloads) after I download it I open up console su - and then
cd /downloads
tar xjvf gaim-0.70.tar.bz2,
cd /downloads/gaim-0.70
./configure
make
make install
exit to my normal user
gaim &
That's how I did it.
doesn't work for me at all. I even tried removing earlier components of GAIM, thinking that maybe they were conflicting. Well, now I dont have any IM at all. I run...
./configure
make
make install
gaim
command not found
Runnining out of reasons it's not working... unless you have an error message or something... Try downloading the source again... http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
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