[gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement

[Matt Harrison]

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