[NTLUG:Discuss] ymessenger

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 21:43, Courtney Grimland wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can find a simple tarball available for the
> latest ymessenger for Linux?
> 
> I can only find RPM's and Debian packages, on their website. 
> Unfortunately, I don't have any of these package management systems
> available to use.
> 
> The version I've been using for a while now came in a tarball with
> the binary and a shell-script installer in it.  It seems there has
> been a protocol change and I can no longer use this older version to
> connect to the Yahoo Messenger server(s).

rpm2cpio
$ rpm2cpio rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd
./opt/ymessenger/bin/yahoo_gnome.png
./opt/ymessenger/bin/yahoo_kde.xpm
./opt/ymessenger/bin/ymessenger
./opt/ymessenger/bin/ymessenger.bin
./opt/ymessenger/bin/ymessenger.desktop
./opt/ymessenger/bin/ymessenger.kdelnk
./opt/ymessenger/bin/ymessenger.local
./opt/ymessenger/lib/libgtkhtml.so.6
./usr/bin/ymessenger
./usr/bin/ymessenger.local
./usr/share/applications/ymessenger.desktop

Then you can modify ./opt/ymessenger/bin/ymessenger (which is just a
simple shell script) to point to the right locations.  The ./usr/bin
directory files aren't going to work, but everything else should work
(in theory).  I don't have a 7.x desktop around to test on right now,
but it did work for a 9 build.

Also, according to the list, they are working on that.

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