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On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt |
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Harrison<iwasinnamuknow@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi guys, |
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> I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. |
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> It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. |
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> I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately |
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> I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. |
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> I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to |
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> connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it |
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> seems they have been retired from portage. |
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> Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC |
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> into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. |
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> Thanks in advance |
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> Matt |
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I've used Pidgin (formerly Gaim) with Yahoo for years and it works |
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fine for me. Be sure you're using the very latest version, as Yahoo |
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(and others) change their protocol often and the pidgin team needs to |
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adapt to it. You may need to unmask it if you're not using ~arch. |
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Check www.pidgin.im to see what the latest version is. |
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Kopete should work, too. It even does video. |
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