Re: gaim and Yahoo

From: Dave (dave_at_systemrecycler.com)
Date: 08/01/04


Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:16:24 GMT

Timothy Kaine wrote:

> Dave wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to help a friend get Gaim working on a new install of 9.1 pro.
>> She was using windows before and has a yahoo account already. The
>> wiwdows machine is so ate up with viruses that she want to throw it out
>> the window. The Suse 9.1 pro is on a different physically seperate
>> machine. When she created the yahoo account it tries to log in but throws
>> her off
>> right away. I know that yahoo made some changes a while back and messed
>> everyone up.
>>
>> I installed the newest gaim on MY machine and a whole lot of things are
>> messed up now. How can I get her gaim fixed or upgraded without breaking
>> everything like I did on mine? I don't have access to her machine I have
>> to tell her over the telephone what to do and she's not very computer
>> savvy, it would be a nightmare to install all the junk I ended up having
>> to install when I tried to use this,
>> http://www.usr-local-bin.org/gaim.php It was a nightmare, it complained
>> and complained about EVERYTHING so I
>> finally told it to ignore the problems. Now everything is screwed up on
>> my machine, lots of programs are cratered out now..
>> I do NOT want to do that to her machine..
>>
>> HELP!!!!!
>>
>> Thanks!!
>
> You can always get the latest GAIM version packaged in an RPM just for
> SuSE here:
> http://guru.linuxbe.org/index.php
>
> 0.80 is waiting for you...
>
Thank you very much! I KNEW there were helpful and nice Linux people out
there, somewhere...

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