[NTLUG:Discuss] Yahoo Messenger

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 01:00, kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> Courtney Grimland wrote:
> > Is this Yahoo's official client (I apologize for my ignorance)?  What
> > are the requirements (glibc version, etc)?  Any chance there'll be a
> > simple tarball?  Or can one extract the binaries somehow from the
> > RPM's or other packages?  ...
> 
> You can always run "rpm2cpio" on an RPM file, and get a CPIO file. :-)  I used 
> to do it all the time, when I used to use Slackware.
> 

This is the 'official' yahoo messenger 1.0 RC1 (so beta) for Linux.  It
does support the file transfers and most other features of Windows,
expect Voice and IMvironments.  It has all the tabs (sports, news,
bookmarks, finance, weather, etc..) as the windows version, and
integrates nicely with Mozilla (can open links in new tabs, or so it
says).

I am working on getting other formats.  
As far as requirements, I am not sure.  I know it has been used on RH7.x
and above.  I know it uses Gtk and GtkHTML, but comes with a library for
that, because it is modified.  The RPM installs in /opt/ymessenger

The last public release can be found here
http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html

> Madhat,
> 
> How do we get said RPM?  I'd like to give it a whirl.

Since several people have expressed an interest, 
http://www.unspecific.com/ymessenger/


I use messenger daily, and since installing this one have not
experienced any problems, and it is _much_ faster and has more features
than the old version.

-- 
MadHat at Unspecific.com
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
   -- Lewis Carroll - _Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_