Yahoo! Messenger for Unix

[Chris Gramer]

I noticed that Yahoo! finally has a Messenger client for Unix/Linux. 
I'm running FC3, and I'm unsure which version of their Messenger to
download.  They have clients for Red Hat Linux 6, 7, 8, and 9.  They
also have a Debian version and a FreeBSD version.  I assume I should use
the Red Hat 9 version, but I'm not sure.  Any help?  Thanks!!

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  Chris Gramer
  cgramer(a)fastmail.fm

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Friday 22 April 2005 15:11, Chris Gramer wrote:
>  I noticed that Yahoo! finally has a Messenger client for Unix/Linux.
>  I'm running FC3, and I'm unsure which version of their Messenger to
>  download.  They have clients for Red Hat Linux 6, 7, 8, and 9.  They
>  also have a Debian version and a FreeBSD version.  I assume I should use
>  the Red Hat 9 version, but I'm not sure.  Any help?  Thanks!! 
Don't worry about the Yahoo client.  Use a multi-protocol client; I've found 
that Gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net) connects perfectly well to Yahoo, as 
well as to ICQ, Jabber, MSN, AIM, and so on.

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Richard S. Crawford
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[Chris Gramer]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:16:58 -0700, "Richard Crawford"
<rscrawford(a)mossroot.com&gt; said:

>  Don't worry about the Yahoo client.  Use a multi-protocol client;
> I've
>  found that Gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net) connects perfectly well
>  to Yahoo, as well as to ICQ, Jabber, MSN, AIM, and so on. 
Call me adventurous.  I'd like to try the Yahoo! client as well (I've
been using Gaim for quite some time).  Which version to use?  :-)

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  Chris Gramer
  cgramer(a)fastmail.fm

[Andrew Parker]

>  Call me adventurous.  I'd like to try the Yahoo! client as well
> (I've
>  been using Gaim for quite some time).  Which version to use?  :-) 
Adventurous, the rh9 version works ok for me on FC3

[Chris Gramer]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:08:24 -0400, "g b" <gbofspam(a)gmail.com&gt; said:

>  > Call me adventurous.  I'd like to try the Yahoo! client as
> well (I've
>  > been using Gaim for quite some time).  Which version to use?  :-) 
>  Adventurous, the rh9 version works ok for me on FC3 
Thanks!  :-)

Signed,
Adventurous

[Mauriat M]

On 4/22/05, Chris Gramer <cgramer(a)fastmail.fm&gt; wrote:
>  Call me adventurous.  I'd like to try the Yahoo! client as well
> (I've
>  been using Gaim for quite some time).  Which version to use?  :-) 
When I visited that site in July 04, there was a Fedora download:
rh10.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm. I'm not sure why they took it down.
I still have the rh10 version on my disk and it seems to run in FC3.
It crashes at times, especially when sending files. And it doesn't
have a minimize to applet functionality that Gaim has.

Mauriat

[Andrew Parker]

>  When I visited that site in July 04, there was a Fedora download:
>  rh10.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm. I'm not sure why they took it down.
>  I still have the rh10 version on my disk and it seems to run in FC3.
>  It crashes at times, especially when sending files. And it doesn't
>  have a minimize to applet functionality that Gaim has. 
If you're using kde, you can run it with ksystraycmd to get it into
the tray.  only annoyance is to minimise it, you have to click on the
tray icon rather than the close window button.

[Julien Le Houérou]

Hi, where did you get these packages? i never found anything more recent 
than the one i've been using for 4 years now.

Thanks!

g b wrote:

> >When I visited that site in July 04, there was a Fedora download:
> >rh10.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm. I'm not sure why they took it down.
> >I still have the rh10 version on my disk and it seems to run in FC3.
> >It crashes at times, especially when sending files. And it doesn't
> >have a minimize to applet functionality that Gaim has.
> >    
> >
>
> If you're using kde, you can run it with ksystraycmd to get it into
> the tray.  only annoyance is to minimise it, you have to click on the
> tray icon rather than the close window button.
>
>   
>

[Mauriat M]

On 4/22/05, Julien Le Houérou <julien_lh(a)yahoo.fr&gt; wrote:
>  Hi, where did you get these packages? i never found anything more
> recent 
http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html

>  than the one i've been using for 4 years now. 
I beleive the RH9 RPM and the RH10(?) RPM I have are the exact same
file (compared with MD5). The RPM I installed has a build date of:
"Mon 15 Sep 2003 03:12:08 PM EDT" much newer than 4 yrs old :-)

Mauriat

[jim lawrence]

On 4/22/05, Mauriat <mirandam(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 4/22/05, Julien Le Houérou <julien_lh(a)yahoo.fr&gt; wrote:
>  > Hi, where did you get these packages? i never found anything more recent
>  
>  http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html
>  
>  > than the one i've been using for 4 years now.
>  
>  I beleive the RH9 RPM and the RH10(?) RPM I have are the exact same
>  file (compared with MD5). The RPM I installed has a build date of:
>  "Mon 15 Sep 2003 03:12:08 PM EDT" much newer than 4 yrs old :-)
>  
>  Mauriat
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There is a bug in the RH9 version of Yahoo messenger  Your online
buddies will show as not being online

I giot sick of uit a while ago and have stuck with gaim

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Jim Lawrence
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