IM for Yahoo

[SurfThaNet]

I would like to setup Yahoo IM and I do not know what to do. Yahoo has a download for Red Hat and FreeBSD. As you can see I am a newbie at this Linux stuff. Thanks in Advance.

[probono]

Please see http://klik.berlios.de - you can install it from there.

[SurfThaNet]

I get protocol not supported error. It said that Klik needed to be installed first. I followed the instructions. Im running Knoppix 3.6

[probono]

I get protocol not supported error. It said that Klik needed to be installed first. I followed the instructions. Im running Knoppix 3.6

In order to install the klik client:

*Be sure you are online
* Copy the following text:

wget klik.berlios.de/client/install -O -|sh
* Press Alt-F2 and paste the text there and press OK

Please wait until you get the following message:

Now you can start installing software.
Opening the klik point-and-klik software store...

Now you can point-and-klik to install the software packages.

[firebyrd10]

Gaim supports the yahoo messenger.
Did you try that?

[shah]

Yahoo messenger do comes with debian package.
http://download.yahoo.com/dl/unix/ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb

But before you install ymessenger, you need to install libssl0.9.6 first or else you will encounter unmet dependencies problem.

apt-get install libssl0.9.6
Then install ymessenger.

:D :D :D :D :D

[SurfThaNet]

shah, I'm not sure what or how to get libssl0.9.6 I'm NEW to Linux. Any help is arppreciated! I don't Unix form Linux. I am real green and I want to learn.

[shah]

Okay, asumming you already download ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb.

Open kosole and type this command:
su <enter> **it will ask for root password, enter that password
apt-get update <enter> ** you don't need to run this if you already done it before.
apt-get install libssl0.9.6 <enter> **this will install libssl0.96 from net

Then change to the directory where you save ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb.
ex:
cd /home/yourname/download <enter>
dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb <enter>
ymessenger <enter> **this will run ymessenger and will ask you to configure your yahoo messenger.

You can also install .deb package using gui (kpackage) if it is installed in
your system.
:D :D

[SurfThaNet]

I was able to setup Yahoo IM with Klik

[pskr]

Okay, asumming you already download ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb.

Open kosole and type this command:
su <enter> **it will ask for root password, enter that password
apt-get update <enter> ** you don't need to run this if you already done it before.
apt-get install libssl0.9.6 <enter> **this will install libssl0.96 from net

Then change to the directory where you save ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb.
ex:
cd /home/yourname/download <enter>
dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb <enter>
ymessenger <enter> **this will run ymessenger and will ask you to configure your yahoo messenger.

You can also install .deb package using gui (kpackage) if it is installed in
your system.
:D :D

Thank you Shah for your detailed instructions. I was able to install YM.
[Note: it is not libss10.9.6 [10 dot 9 dot 6], it is lib-ssl-0-9-6]

Thanks a lot.

[johndoe32102002]

I am using Ubuntu, and am fairly knowledgable in linux. I have installed libssl0.9.7 and libssl0.9.8, but for Yahoo's IM .deb, I need libssl0.9.6! I tried the sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.6 and sudo apt-get install libssl0.* (the second is how I installed all other libssl version) with no luck. Is there a tar.gz available of libssl 0.9.6 that I can ./configure, make, and sudo make install?

Knoppix users: use su instead of sudo

Thanks,
John