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Yahoo! Messenger 8.x



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NameYahoo! Messenger
Version8.x
License Free to use
URLhttp://messenger.yahoo.com
Votes Marked as obsolete
RatingSilver
Wine Version1.1.9
Maintainers of this version:
Description
Version 8
Old test results
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Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works
After working on the yahoo messenger for about a week I got it to sign in perfectly, I can IM people with all the effects and everything, audibles work fine, I can read what people send and all. I had to do quite alot of installing with stuff with winetricks and copying some dlls over from ies4linux installation and walla.


What does not

I know that for a fact audio/vid doesn't work, it says that the audio isn't accessible because it's in use but I haven't found out the cause of that yet. Other then that, the UI doesn't like the linux very much you just have to tell wine not to decorate the window and the UI seems to level it self out.

Alright there is quite a few dll overrides I needed to do so I"ll list what I have, I know for a fact riched20 and jscript dll you need atleast to fix the not being able to see anyone type issue. But anyways here is the list I have, noting that some of these dlls that I did not have were taken from ies4linux wine.


What was not tested
Chatrooms, and I haven't really tested much else.


Additional Comments

And right now I am still talking on yahoo with friends so hopefully this helps!
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
CurrentFedora 9Jan 15 20091.1.9 Yes Yes Silver an anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 8.04 "Hardy" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 08 20081.1.8 Yes Yes Bronze an anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 8.04 "Hardy" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Mar 21 20080.9.57. Yes Yes Garbage RaduB. 
ShowUbuntu 7.10 "Gutsy" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Dec 24 20070.9.51. Yes No Garbage an anonymous user 
ShowopenSUSE 10.3Nov 18 20070.9.49. Yes Yes Garbage an anonymous user 


Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
5162 Google Talk requires several missing richedit features NEW View
16147 Webcam doesn't work REOPENED View
16885 Yahoo Messenger 8/9 menu invisible, 'X' box hotspot in wrong place NEW View

 
HOWTO

Alright well I was able to get Yahoo working doing the following.

Install winetricks first and follow the steps in the tips section then come back here.

Here is a list of dlls you need they all should be in winetricks, whatever you can't find in winetricks, look in your ies4linux wine system32 directory

Yahoo might complain that riched20 is missing and not startup, if that is the case, take the riched20 from your wine directory and put it with yahoo. The audio and video does not work, I tried webcam and the webcam would turn and back off, it is probably just not supported with wine yet because I didn't get any errors from the terminal, Audio would just say the sound card was just in use but that could be just with different linux distributions.

"comctl32"="native"
"gdiplus"="native"
"ie4"="native"
"iemigrat"="native"
"iernonce"="native"
"iesetup"="native"
"itircl"="native,builtin"
"itss"="native,builtin"
"jscript"="native"
"mlang"="native,builtin"
"mshtml"="native,builtin"
"msimtf"="native,builtin"
"msxml3"="native,builtin"
"odbc32"="native,builtin"
"odbccp32"="native,builtin"
"oleaut32"="native,builtin"
"riched20"="native"
"riched32"="native"
"shdoclc"="native,builtin"
"shdocvw"="native,builtin"
"shlwapi"="native,builtin"
"urlmon"="native,builtin"

This is working as of wine 1.1.9 just to clarify any questions about that.

Tips

The installer works fine with recent 1.1.1x wine.

The app won't log in unless you do alt-m and choose "Firewall - no proxies".

The app will crash after login unless you do "winetricks comctl32".

The app will crash when the instant message window comes up in wine 1.1.12, but not in wine-1.1.11.

When you send files and chat messages, they arrive ok at the other end.

But when other people send you messages, you hear the arrival sound, but you don't see any text.

 




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