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How to install Yahoo Messenger 9 or 10 or 11 on Zorin OS

jamesph

Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:57:26 am

Hope people here can help me how to install Yahoo Messeger 9 or 10 in zorin OS. Thank You in advance

maxmm5

Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:52:11 pm

Not so lookalike; video chat is missing, that's what I like most with YM.

craig10x

Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:25:25 pm

It's hard to find a messenger that does video chat in Linux...Pidgin is a great multi-messenger (does all the various ims like yahoo, msn, aol, etc..) but doesn't do video chat...The only way you can install the actual Yahoo messenger would be using "wine" or "play on linux"...how well it will work is hard to say...you would have to try it and see...

Unfortunately yahoo doesn't make a linux version...only windows and mac...

maxmm5

Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:50:47 pm

For Yahoo user; There is now Yahoo Messenger for the web on beta, no need to install on your hard drive, just bookmarks it on your browser.

Wolfman

Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:08:20 pm

maxmm5 wrote:For Yahoo user; There is now Yahoo Messenger for the web on beta, no need to install on your hard drive, just bookmarks it on your browser.

For your info, Yahoo will not be making a messenger for Linux, I chatted with someone from their dev team a few days ago. I use Skype now which works on both Linux and Windows!!.

Regards Wolfman

worman

Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:03:51 am

it might be the version problem, if the one you're using doesn't work, try this: MultiYahoo!Messenger 9 download. i'm using it.

Wolfman

Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:53:06 am

Just found out that gyachi now has webcam support!!. I have not been able to try it out yet; to see how good it is!.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tag/install-g ... untu-11-04

Regards Wolfman