[plug] installed it

[Shayne O'Neill]

Its best with gaim to go straight to site and get it. Just because debian
has a bad habit of being hopelessly outdated with gaim and the old ones
wont talk to yahoo or msn because of pesky protocol changes.

tarball.

Of course standard disclaimers apply with installing tarballs over debs
pkg management. Not that that stops a slackware raised recalcitrant like
me. :)

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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Craig Ringer wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 21:12, David wrote:
>
> > /opt/ymessenger/bin/ymessenger.bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /opt/ymessenger/bin/ymessenger.bin)
>
> > what do i do pls?
>
> ymessenger needs a newer version of a core component of your system. A
> lot of work can be involved to upgrade your system; it's probably not
> worth it. At this point, I would suggest that you look into gaim as an
> alternative that will let you talk to people on Yahoo messenger.
>
> GAIM is available in debian - "apt-get install gaim" as root should
> install it, then you run it from an Xterm almost the same way you ran
> ymessenger - you just run "gaim &". If you have problems connecting to
> Yahoo's network, then you may need a newer version of GAIM.
>
> There is a backport of GAIM on www.backports.org that should work if you
> have trouble with the older one, but I don't know enough about that site
> to provide detailed instructions on how to install it. Perhaps someone
> else on PLUG could do so (*hint* Debian users *hint*).
>
> Craig Ringer
>
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