YMessenger and GAIM

[papanohair]

Had to reinstall MDK 8.2 and first thing I did was to get GAIM working, but this time Yahoo would not work thru GAIM. It works fine if I use YMessenger program but not with GAIM. It worked fine before. Anyone have this problem or suggest a possible cure? Thanks!

[gorn]

how is it not working?

in the accounts window when you hit Add do you not see Yahoo as a choice?

if thats the problem go to Plugins and load the libyahoo.so (prolly in /usr/lib/gaim or /usr/local/lib/gaim)

then try adding it.

also what version of gaim are you using? the latest is .59 and can be gotten from http://gaim.sf.net

[papanohair]

[quote author=gorn link=board=1;threadid=4693;start=0#46928 date=1030236263]
how is it not working?

>in the accounts window when you hit Add do you not see Yahoo as a >choice?

>if thats the problem go to Plugins and load the libyahoo.so (prolly in >/usr/lib/gaim or /usr/local/lib/gaim)

>then try adding it.

I did all that already. Had been using GAIM before. Added the plugin but will not log onto Yahoo. Other 3 work fine (AIM, MSN and ICQ). I get an error message saying it was not able to "read anything" Got me baffled because it worked before just fine.

>also what version of gaim are you using? the latest is .59 and can be >gotten from http://gaim.sf.net
[/quote]

Using the one that came with MDK 8.2 (Ver 5.1 - same one I used before). Was going to upgrade to the latest version but ran into a dependency problem and could not find the file I needed.

[gorn]

try using mandrakes tool to uninstall gaim (rpm -u gaim or something? i'm not a distro guy)

then:

wget http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/source...-0.59.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf gaim-0.59.1.tar.gz
cd gaim-0.59.1
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-nls
make

and for the final step you must be root:

make install

then run gaim and see how that goes.

good luck!