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
use the autogen script to generate a configure script:
./autogen.sh
run configure, with any options that you might prefer:
./configure --disable-rpath --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix /usr
To generate a spec file
make gyachi.spec
To build an image that will be installed over existing executables (not recommended):
make make install
Pidgin
You can also use Pidgin for meeseging in Yahoo.
Can installed with :
sudo apt-get install pidgin