On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Paul > Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Matt > > Harrison<iwasinnamuk...@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
