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Date:      Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:08:06 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        ecrist@adtechintegrated.com
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Yahoo! and GAIM
Message-ID:  <1073711286.42838.74.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <200401092151.16631.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>
References:  <200401092151.16631.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>

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On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 22:51, Eric F Crist wrote:
> Hello people.
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> I used to think IM clients were passe and childish, until I tried to go=20
> without.  I found that there are a lot of business associates and friends=
=20
> that use it, and it makes life a lot easier.  So, alas, I've been using G=
AIM=20
> as a one-stop shop.  However, Yahoo! changed their protocol again this=20
> morning, so I can't log in.

Have you looked at the GAIM homepage:

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

The first news item mentions a workaround for connecting to Yahoo!.

Joe

>   I tried to download their freebsd port (which=20
> THEY wrote) and I get the following errors when I try to install it with=20
> pkg_add:
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> nomad# pkg_add fbsd4.ymessenger.tgz
> pkg_add: could not find package gtk-1.2.3 !
> pkg_add: could not find package glib-1.2.3 !
> pkg_add: could not find package XFree86-3.3.6 !
> pkg_add: could not find package gdk-pixbuf-0.8.0 !
> pkg_add: could not find package gettext-0.11.1_1 !
> nomad#
>=20
> Does anyone have a fix for this?  This GAIM password thing is new this=20
> morning, I've done searches, and there isn't a fix yet.  It's even discus=
sed=20
> on the Yahoo! groups for Unix clients.
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> TIA
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