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
