Hi,

Unfortunately Yahoo has a Messenger for Redhat and Debian but not Suse. Is there a way I could install Yahoo Messenger on my Suse?

I am more interested in the Lauchcast Radio which comes with it than text messaging...

Thanks
Houmie

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ymessenger/

Has the Linux version, don't know if it's current. You might also look at :

http://freshmeat.net/projects/gaim/

Good luck.

or just download the red hat 9 rpm from yahoo and install with yast.

This one sounds easy to do. But where in Yast can I select the redhat 9 rpm file I have downloaded? Import needs a .sel file.

Thanks Houmie

just left-click the rpm file.

oh that easy hehe? Actually I tried it from the terminal as root. with
rpm -i rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm

Well it needed just one more package to be installed: gdk-pixbuf
I used Yast and installed it from the cd. After a retry the program is there. It works. ;o)

Why do they say it is a red hat file, when it is also useable for Suse?


Anyways, it is very disapointing though. The Lauchcast Radio feature is not available. Only for the WIndows version. ( Why?
I cannot start Lauchcast even from the Browser, since they do not support Mozilla/Netscape browsers but just the IE.

Damn it. I miss my customized Rock music. WHy do they do that to us...

Houmie

RPM=red hat package manager.
after the install open a terminal and enter /usr/bin/ymessenger.after the initiall setup you can just click on the icon.

Just a thought:
Last time I used Opera, it had a setting that mimicked (for lack of a better word)
IE. That and mplayer maybe???

Yes thats what I did. It worked perfectly. I have the symbol (icon) in my start. However the feature I was acually looking for is not there. damn it.
BTW I installed Firefox, but it didn't create any Icons. I have to start Firefox everytime from the firefx.sh
Kind of annoying not having the icon on desktop. How do I make my life easier? ;o)

Thanks
HOumie

Hmm interesting idea. Maybe it could work. You mean the opensource mplayer classic from Sourceforge? Do you have a link for me? BTW where do I get DivX for Linux?

Thanks
HOumie

Here's the link for mplayer:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/mplayer/

Also has info on divix, etc.

alright, I ll give it a shot. Thanks

BTW just a thought...what if I use wine to emulate windows and install Yahho messenger for WIndows on my system? Could that work? Is it hard to use wine?

Houmie

utilities>desktop>menu updating tool
should be able to add firefox into the menu,if not right-click the kmenu button and use the menu editor.

utilities>desktop>menu updating tool

There is no "menu updating tool". There is Groupware wizard, Knotes, Kpager, Ksnapshot.

Houmie