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Just curious if anyone has had any luck or made any progress getting Yahoo Messenger to work with Ubuntu? I know empathy and Viber and a lot of other work, but there are parts of Yahoo that make it a better fit for some of the people I am trying to convince to switch to Ubuntu.

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The best you can get currently seems to be gyache. Even though it is old and not maintained anymore. From the website:

This Yahoo! client for Linux operating system supports almost all of the features you would expect to find on the official Windows Yahoo! client: Voice chat, webcams, faders, 'nicknames', audibles, avatars, display images, and more. Yet, it remains very light-weight and memory-friendly. GyachE Improved uses Gtk-2 for its user interfaces (Gtk-2 2.0.6 or better required).

You need to install from source though. From install.txt:

Steps for building a gyachi executable

  1. use the autogen script to generate a configure script:

    ./autogen.sh
    
  2. run configure, with any options that you might prefer:

    ./configure --disable-rpath --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix /usr
    
  3. To generate a spec file

    make gyachi.spec
    
  4. To build an image that will be installed over existing executables (not recommended):

    make
    make install
    
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Pidgin

You can also use Pidgin for meeseging in Yahoo.

Can installed with :

sudo apt-get install pidgin

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