Fedora's Gaim no longer works with Yahoo

Benny Amorsen benny+nospam at amorsen.dk
Thu Sep 25 14:19:35 UTC 2003


On 2003-09-25 at 15:01, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> Anyone else notice that the version of Gaim that comes from fedora.us no
> longer works with Yahoo. Yahoo has updated their system so that it
> apparently requires some changes and they are no longer accepting
> connections from Gaim. Ymessenger 1.0.4 for Linux does work - the RH9
> RPM installs correctly on Severn.
> 
> Since I use more than Yahoo Messenger, it would be nice to see an update
> to Gaim out there. I think there is a newer version which does work
> correctly.

Until Raw Hide gets the new gaim, you can use:

http://amorsen.dk/rpms/gaim-0.69-2.i386.rpm
http://amorsen.dk/srpms/gaim-0.69-2.src.rpm

Basically just the Raw Hide gaim upgraded to 0.69. There is a small
patch to work around a bug in po/Makefile.in.in. Yahoo works great.


/Benny







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