Comments on: How to install Gyachi in ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

By: Monroe Genas

Monroe Genas — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:56:19 +0000

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By: vasu

vasu — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:15:35 +0000

it works thanks….

By: rd1381

rd1381 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:37:08 +0000

karmic koala
setinggl has pointed out a ppa for installtion that i checked and it has gyachi and you can use that .
if you dont know how to use ppa in synaptic ubuntu ,just google and you will be directed in right direction

but even if you are a new user of linux(i am not pro either) i still remocend that use compile some programs on your own because

1:its a very informative process (first is pain but then gain) about how packages are build ,because basically everything you install (even from ubuntu dvd) are packages that are built from sources(and you can even build and ubuntu from source in theory)

2: next time when there is no ppa or standalone deb package ready to install or if you need a new version that’s not in ppa, you can just grab the source from the program homepage and build it yourself

3:its more stable if you build one on your machine instead of using a ppa one( though most of ppa are supposed to follow a good regime for building packages but still many of them use automated build process that not monitored carefully so its not very ….)

4:and the last one that is more related to me that to anything else is that when you build a package yourself you can install it practically anywhere ( i had to install a fresh ubuntu and i still use the gyachi tha i installed in my home folder

some pointers:
1: build process for many package on linux is just a three command process:
./confiure
make
make install

but you will encounter many errors at first . beware that most of them (in my experience are just dependency error: not having the right library installed) so read reamme file for packages carefull (every source package has one

By: Setinggil

Setinggil — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:57:45 +0000

There is v 1.2.4.
if you’re in karmic, use this PPA repo
https://launchpad.net/~baudm/+archive/ppa/+packages
or just sudo add-apt-repository ppa:baudm

Txs loell (http://wwww.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8789892&postcount=678)

By: karmic koala

karmic koala — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:04:42 +0000

rd - how do you compile this yourself. Sorry Noob here.

By: abced

abced — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:18:45 +0000

yeah, the current gyachi has not been able to connect for at least 2 weeks now. pidgin still does tho. what a bunch of shit.

come on gyachi team, lets update the package already… i doubt it.

By: ATOzTOA

ATOzTOA — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:24:51 +0000

Yahoo keeps on changing their protocol, so we need to keep it updated…

By: rd1381

rd1381 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:57:39 +0000

this doesn’t work for x86-64 version of karmic
in ppa page of loell it says build failed on 64bit
so i had to compile it myself

By: Shyam

Shyam — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:57:09 +0000

Thanks UG. Managed to successfully install karmic packages onto lucid but am unable to login. Keep getting error “username or password is incorrect” which is not the case. Anything I am missing?

By: Setinggil

Setinggil — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:57:24 +0000

Yes, it’s the best Yahoo client - afaik -for Linux OS.
But one its lacking is : can’t voice chat in private room.
Anyone can solve it (making that one can voice chat in pvt room)?