Re: Problem with yahoo messenger, Fedora 7

[Rahul Sundaram]

Arnab Biswas wrote:
>  Hi All,
>  
>  I am trying to install yahoo messenger in Fedora 7. The steps I am 
>  following are :
>  
>  1. Download rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm from messenger.yahoo.com 
>  <http://messenger.yahoo.com/>
>  
>  2. login as root
>  
>  3. rpm -ihv rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
>  
>  It is giving the error :
>  
>  error: Failed dependencies:
>          gdk-pixbuf >= 0.8.0 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386
>          libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386
>  
>  4. So I tried with "rpm -ihv --nodeps rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm"
>   
Wrong move. Yum localinstall <package.rpm> would have work better. Yahoo 
messenger on Linux offers nothing over Gaim/Pidgin or Kopete afaik. So I 
would recommend using these instead.

Rahul

Ps: fedora-list is more appropriate if it is not a laptop specific 
question.