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Thread: YMessenger and GAIM

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    YMessenger and GAIM

    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!

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    Re:YMessenger and GAIM

    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

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    Re:YMessenger and GAIM

    [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.

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    Re:YMessenger and GAIM

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

    then:

    Code:
    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:

    Code:
    make install
    then run gaim and see how that goes.

    good luck!

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