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What's  In This Version?
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Fast, Safe Login - Login quickly and safely without anyone being
able to steal your password.
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GUI changes - keyboard shortcuts, menus, improved conferencing, toolbars
are all updated to offer a common user experience across platforms.
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Contact Info - Enter details of your friends on any Operating System / Yahoo! Messenger and those entries show up on Unix. Your friends are now associated with nicknames, which can be used to replace unintuitive ID's in conversations and all displays.
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Content - Richer content from Yahoo! Now enjoy Finance, News, Sports, Weather, Bookmarks, Travel, Auctions and Calendar
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Typing Notifications - Get to know when someone is talking to you
as they talk to you.
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Performance Improvements - Faster execution of comands and lower
memory usage with increased stability
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The Linux version of the Messenger runs on the Intel
chipset and has been tested on the following distributions:
- RedHat 6.1, 6.2, 7.1 and 7.2
- Debian Sid and Woody
The FreeBSD version of the Messenger has been tested on:
The Solaris version of the Messenger runs on the Sparc chipset
and has been tested on:
- Solaris (SunOS 5.7) Sparc
Software Requirements: These packages require X Windows, GTK
1.2 or greater, openssl 0.9.6 or greater and gdk-pixbuf 0.8.0 or greater
Please Note: If you are running a UNIX system other than those
listed above, you probably won't be able to run Yahoo! Messenger
Note: This is a beta release of Y! Messenger, if
you have any feedback, please write to us at:
messenger - unix - support @ yahoo - inc
. com
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| How
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Linux Installation:
RedHat Linux:
- Save ymessenger-0.99.17-1.i386.rpm for
- Log in as root and type
- rpm -i ymessenger-0.99.17-1.i386.rpm
- Run /usr/bin/ymessenger from X windows
Debian Linux:
- Save ymessenger_0.99.17-1_i386.deb for
- Log in as root and type
- dpkg -i ymessenger_0.99.17-1_i386.deb
- Run /usr/bin/ymessenger from X windows
Solaris Installation:
- Save ymessenger-0.99.17-1.sparc.tgz for
- Log in as root and
- gunzip ymessenger-0.99.17-1.sparc.tgz
- pkg_add -d ymessenger-0.99.17-1.sparc
- Unsatisfied dependencies can be found at Freeware for Solaris site.
- Run /usr/bin/ymessenger from X windows
FreeBSD Installation
- Save ymessenger-0.99.17.tgz for
- Log in as root and pkg_add ymessenger-0.99.17.tgz
- Run /usr/bin/ymessenger from X windows
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The TAR.GZ format is only recommended for advanced users.
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