Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 beta with wine.

[arun_maurya]

I am using Kopet & Pidgin for messeging. today i tried to install yahoo messenger 9.0 (Beta) using wine. It successfully installed on Fedora8 without any error. but at the login time when i try to type in password field some ":: ::" characters filled in password field and login failed.
anybody using Yahoo messenger in linux without any problem?
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[Hlingler]

Yes:

[vince@micron-pc-rb Fri May 09 02:27:58 ~]$ rpm -qi ymessenger
Name        : ymessenger                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.0.4                             Vendor: (none)
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Mon 15 Sep 2003 03:12:08 PM EDT
Install Date: Thu 17 Apr 2008 02:29:01 PM EDT      Build Host: delegate.corp.yahoo.com
Group       : Programs                      Source RPM: ymessenger-1.0.4-1.src.rpm
Size        : 2492878                          License: Proprietary
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : Yahoo! Inc <messenger-unix-support@yahoo-inc.com>
URL         : http://messsenger.yahoo.com
Summary     : Yahoo! Messenger Client
Description :
Yahoo! Messenger Client
[vince@micron-pc-rb Fri May 09 02:28:07 ~]$

[linuxelu]

[QUOTE=arun_maurya]I am using Kopet & Pidgin for messeging. today i tried to install yahoo messenger 9.0 (Beta) using wine. It successfully installed on Fedora8 without any error. but at the login time when i try to type in password field some ":: ::" characters filled in password field and login failed.
anybody using Yahoo messenger in linux without any problem?

I have exactly the same problem!

[arun_maurya]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Yes:

[vince@micron-pc-rb Fri May 09 02:27:58 ~]$ rpm -qi ymessenger
Name        : ymessenger                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.0.4                             Vendor: (none)
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Mon 15 Sep 2003 03:12:08 PM EDT
Install Date: Thu 17 Apr 2008 02:29:01 PM EDT      Build Host: delegate.corp.yahoo.com
Group       : Programs                      Source RPM: ymessenger-1.0.4-1.src.rpm
Size        : 2492878                          License: Proprietary
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : Yahoo! Inc <messenger-unix-support@yahoo-inc.com>
URL         : http://messsenger.yahoo.com
Summary     : Yahoo! Messenger Client
Description :
Yahoo! Messenger Client
[vince@micron-pc-rb Fri May 09 02:28:07 ~]$

hi dear Hlingler,
kopet and pidgin are much better than using ymessenger 1.0.4. but doesn't support many features of Yahoo messenger.

Originally Posted by arun_maurya

hi dear Hlingler,
kopet and pidgin are much better than using ymessenger 1.0.4. but doesn't support many features of Yahoo messenger.

what features do you want?

[fnmblot]

Me personally, I would love to be able to use the avatars in Yahoo IM on Linux. But can't with pidgin.

Originally Posted by fnmblot

Me personally, I would love to be able to use the avatars in Yahoo IM on Linux. But can't with pidgin.

avatars arent really a Big Concern for the Developer(s) of Pidgin,

[jonathonp]

It would be nice to have webcam support for yahoo. hopefully this will happen with pidgin sometime in the future.

Originally Posted by johnnylinux

It would be nice to have webcam support for yahoo. hopefully this will happen with pidgin sometime in the future.

by the looks of it there working non Voice an Video support in 3.0.0 or earlier if you go to the Pidgin Development site
http://developer.pidgin.im/roadmap