[gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement
Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it seems they have been retired from portage. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. Thanks in advance Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it seems they have been retired from portage. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. Thanks in advance Matt I've used Pidgin (formerly Gaim) with Yahoo for years and it works fine for me. Be sure you're using the very latest version, as Yahoo (and others) change their protocol often and the pidgin team needs to adapt to it. You may need to unmask it if you're not using ~arch. Check www.pidgin.im to see what the latest version is. Kopete should work, too. It even does video.
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it seems they have been retired from portage. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. Thanks in advance Matt I've used Pidgin (formerly Gaim) with Yahoo for years and it works fine for me. Be sure you're using the very latest version, as Yahoo (and others) change their protocol often and the pidgin team needs to adapt to it. You may need to unmask it if you're not using ~arch. Check www.pidgin.im to see what the latest version is. Kopete should work, too. It even does video. I will also add that you can use the web-based version of yahoo messenger and avoid software: http://webmessenger.yahoo.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it seems they have been retired from portage. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. Thanks in advance Matt I've used Pidgin (formerly Gaim) with Yahoo for years and it works fine for me. Be sure you're using the very latest version, as Yahoo (and others) change their protocol often and the pidgin team needs to adapt to it. You may need to unmask it if you're not using ~arch. Check www.pidgin.im to see what the latest version is. Kopete should work, too. It even does video. I will also add that you can use the web-based version of yahoo messenger and avoid software: http://webmessenger.yahoo.com Thanks for the reply, Thats very interesting, I wasn't aware of the web based messenger and I will investigate it. I would try out kopete, but I really don't want to have to build kdelibs on this machine and I don't have a build host available right now. I'll also try the latest pidgin, as I'm not currently running ~arch. Thanks for the tips. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it seems they have been retired from portage. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. Thanks in advance Matt I've used Pidgin (formerly Gaim) with Yahoo for years and it works fine for me. Be sure you're using the very latest version, as Yahoo (and others) change their protocol often and the pidgin team needs to adapt to it. You may need to unmask it if you're not using ~arch. Check www.pidgin.im to see what the latest version is. Kopete should work, too. It even does video. I will also add that you can use the web-based version of yahoo messenger and avoid software: http://webmessenger.yahoo.com Thanks for the reply, Thats very interesting, I wasn't aware of the web based messenger and I will investigate it. I just thought of a couple more :) If full-screen flash isn't your thing (or your PC can't handle it), you can use the Yahoo Mobile website which has (or at least used to have) a fully HTML web-based messenger. http://m.yahoo.com Also, I am pretty sure you can talk to Yahoo messenger contacts via MSN Messenger, so you can also check out any MSN-compatible apps such as aMSN.
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement
What version of Pidgin? I am running 2.5.8 and it connects to yahoo without problems. Did you emerge with the yahoo flag enabled, maybe that could be the culprit?
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement
Hi Matt, Matt Harrison wrote on 03/08/09 17:19: I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it seems they have been retired from portage. Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. Installing Pidgin 2.5.8 fixed the hanging session initiation problems caused by recent Yahoo network changes. Cheers, Dave
