- ISO: Linux app to do Yahoo Instant Messaging?
- Posted by Kenny McCormack on January 15th, 2004
I think I've read that there is a Linux app that communicates with Yahoo IM.
(In fact, I think it is called something like talk2anything - and works
with all the popular IM systems).
Where do I get it? Is it something you get from Yahoo (like you get the
Windows app) or is it found on a Linux site?
- Posted by David on January 15th, 2004
Kenny McCormack wrote:
Gaim can communicate with Yahoo, AIM, MSN, Jabber, and a few
others. Version 0.75 as just released the other day.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
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- Posted by root/administrator on January 15th, 2004
Kenny McCormack wrote:
I never heard of any software called talk2anything; however, you certainly
can do a search on Yahoo/Goole or even FreshMeat.net to find out this
software.
Anyway, the ones I use are basically kopete and gaim (besides kmess for MSN
Messenger).
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- Posted by Simon Koh on January 16th, 2004
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:20:01 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:
Gaim or kopete, both works for me.
- Posted by Michael W. Cocke on January 16th, 2004
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:20:01 GMT, gazelle@yin.interaccess.com (Kenny
McCormack) wrote:
Personally, I just use the linux version of YIM.
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- Posted by Kenny McCormack on January 16th, 2004
In article <9q9g009j4p4qn7uv8fjo5gbtc7bvaiu8cs@4ax.com>,
Michael W. Cocke <cocke@catherders.com> wrote:
How/where do I get that?
- Posted by Michael W. Cocke on January 16th, 2004
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:23:05 GMT, gazelle@yin.interaccess.com (Kenny
McCormack) wrote:
Did you even look? Go to the Yahoo web page and click on messenger.
See the third choice under 'quick download'?
http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html
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- Posted by Kenny McCormack on January 16th, 2004
In article <ibgg00553ijtalni0qf5fvgpfiov6f74kt@4ax.com>,
Michael W. Cocke <cocke@catherders.com> wrote:
To be honest, no I didn't. It never occurred to me that they (Yahoo) would
actually have a Linux version. If this works, I will be very happy.
I'm not normally this helpless, but I've been playing helpless on TV
lately...
P.S. Actually, I was pretty amazed to find that Macromedia Flash has
a Linux version. I had more or less resigned myself to having to use
Windows to access sites that require Flash (and which cannot be
end-arounded on this requirement), but then found that they (Macromedia) do
have a Linux version. I've downloaded it, but not yet installed it (still
kind of think of it as virus/spam-ware and like to keep my Linux machines
free of that stuff).
- Posted by johnny bobby bee on January 16th, 2004
Kenny McCormack typed:
you're right about it being a virus. i've installed it, and every time i
visit a site that has flash, my browser starts acting all wacky and
displaying various motion-graphics 'flashing' around all over the place.
i don't know how to stop them, it's annoying.
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- Posted by jamin on January 16th, 2004
In article <bu9k87$qvl$1@yin.interaccess.com>, Kenny McCormack wrote:
Actually the Linux version of Flash is a very, mature bit of code,
consisting of one(?) library object file - I was also hesitant at
first, but installed it to complement the Opera 7.23 I'm running (paid
for!). It works AFAIK with anything that's Netscape plugin compatible
(ie Mozzie, and probably Galeon etc.).
Works for me!
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- Posted by David on January 16th, 2004
johnny bobby bee wrote:
Install BFilter proxy and be done with ads all together.
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- Posted by johnny bobby bee on January 17th, 2004
David typed:
i guess my sarcasm didn't really come through. i was only kidding.
thanks for the tip, though.
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- Posted by Michael W. Cocke on January 17th, 2004
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:08:19 GMT, gazelle@yin.interaccess.com (Kenny
McCormack) wrote:
You must be very new to linux... You'll be very surprised what's
available in native versions. May I offer a suggestion? Start
spending some time reading man pages and googling around.
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- Posted by Michael W. Cocke on January 17th, 2004
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:44:47 GMT, "johnny bobby bee"
<useraddshine.eh@yahoo.ca.eh> wrote:
I don't have a lot of experience with the linux flash, but one site
that I read daily uses it. (Doonesbury) and I've never seen the
behaviour you describe.
What browser are you using? I use Mozilla 1.5, with popups disabled.
I also have a (fairly complex) proxy setup.. I use squid and privoxy
(in series) to block banners, ads, and other annoyances.
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- Posted by Kenny McCormack on January 17th, 2004
In article <roki009opbohrskffiab6kud5vhq4dth1v@4ax.com>,
Michael W. Cocke <cocke@catherders.com> wrote:
....
Faulty logic.
Actually, I've been using Linux since kernel version 0.97.
It is more likely that recent adopters are going to be more familiar with
the GUI/Windows-y apps than are us old-timers.
Let me guess - you actually use KDE, right?
- Posted by Michael W. Cocke on January 17th, 2004
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:00:29 GMT, gazelle@yin.interaccess.com (Kenny
McCormack) wrote:
Well, it's taken me long enough to get used to linux, since I used to
do tech support at AT&T before SVR4 came out, so I figure I might as
well use ALL of the bells and whistles.
I went from Unix to SCO Xenix, then to OS/2, and then to linux,
starting with Redhat, hopping over to BSD 4.4, and back and forth from
SuSE to Mandrake, back to SuSE and back to Redhat. And since I play
computer games as well as programming and network design, underlay all
of that with windows.... I just recently finished my first gentoo
stage 1 build, but for production I'm still on Redhat 9 until it EOLs.
No, I wouldn't say I was a recent adopter.
And since you were originally looking for the YIM client, which isn't
a text mode app, I suppose you must use some form of GUI too?
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- Posted by alvin on January 19th, 2004
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:00:29 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:
i recommend downloading GAIM, that allows you to text chat with icq, msn,
AIM and yahoo.
however, no facilities for voice conversations and file sending tho.
alvin
- Posted by Kenny McCormack on January 19th, 2004
In article <pan.2004.01.19.14.14.57.719410@hotmail.com>,
alvin <alvintsang_ox@hotmail.com> wrote:
....
I've downloaded the Linux YIM, and am quite happy with it. GAIM looked
like it might be a little troublesome (on this particular task, I am having
a very low threshold of pain).
There's discussion on the YMessenger board to the effect that GAIM may not
work with the latest rendition of the Yahoo server/host. So, it seems
safer to go with YIM.
Thanks go to the person who tipped off to it!
- Posted by Ed Murphy on January 20th, 2004
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:57:22 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:
Either they're talking about a future rendition that isn't deployed yet
(or at least isn't deployed to some parts of the world yet), or they
don't know what they're talking about. I've got gaim 0.74 connected to
the Yahoo server/host as I write this message. (Granted, I had to
compile it from source, to get around a dependency problem involving
the spell-checking packages. No doubt a more clueful Linux admin than I
could actually resolve the dependency problem properly...)
- Posted by Michael W. Cocke on January 20th, 2004
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:17:43 GMT, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@socal.rr.com>
wrote:
According to news releases from Yahoo (about 3 months back, I
believe), they're actively trying to break all 3rd party clients...
If they haven't broken Gaim yet, it doesn't mean they won't.
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