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How to enable photo sharing for yahoo messenger in CentOS 5 (linux)

Believe it or not , last week was the most busiest week of wedding.
For me is about 3 (three) coincidence wedding at the same day and time..

  1. One in terengganu..
  2. One in Kelantan..
  3. One in Sabah.. (or is she back to Sabah?)

So, when the friend from Sabah about to show his wedding photos.. she tried to invite for photos sharing
via her yahoo messenger.. and yet I was using pidgin.. so nothing popped up.

Hmm.. was pidgin unable to support such additional feature.. ?

too lazy.. just google for “yahoo messenger with photo sharing in linux”

And bumped into “Gyachi-e” ..

.. few research.. and found out that the RPMized version is available under EPEL repository..

To add into my Centos 5.3 notebook.. I just need to do this..

1. Adding EPEL repo into my repository list .
by copying these content into /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/$basearch
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
[epel-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/$basearch/debug
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-debug-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=1
[epel-source]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/SRPMS
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-source-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=1

or just grab it here..
2. run a yum install :

yum -y install gyachi* --enablerepo epel


and that’s it.. you’re done.

To lauch the program, find the shortcut under “Internet” Section..

then have to play a bit with the button here and there.. to find the sharing photo button.
When succeeded it will have something like this..

Heck.. I can’t believe it, I was logging into Windows XP over vwmare,
install latest yahoo messenger,
login with other user credential .. just to test and get this feature tested and documented.. 8-)

And .. it just worked ~!

and on windowz counter-part will have something like this..


and.. to my surprise.. the Buddy list in Gyachie also shown the logged on but “invisible” user.. .. such as this one:

hahaha.. that would made someone feel uneasy .. though.~

and also the smiley list is extended and reflected the full feature of yahoo messenger.. got “bubble bee” appeared with

:bz

and something like this will appear there…


(not supported by pidgin normal smiley set though~)
p/s : this would then break my singular app pidgin for everything . (twitter,facebook,msn,gtalk,irc) .. 8-)

Namran Hussin: a soft spoken guy... with exceptional interest in computers and technology. I love to learn new thing and also love to break thing for the sake of learning.. but I do abide to the self-imposed limitation or certain thing such as social thing in life, thing can be done and thing that must be avoided at whatever cost such as drug,illegal tracking, smoke,illicit activity..etc.muahahaha let's share what we had in this short term of the life.! make it worth of the living.~

View Comments (2)

  • this would then make this app as ..

    the best yahoo messenger for centos

    .. after pidgin.. hehehe 8-)

    as it had supersede the pidgin capabilities to perform
    some additional task which is not available in pidgin..

    may be you had been using other messenger..
    kindly post your comment in the form below ..

    p/s : don't shoot the messenger..

  • I did the steps above but got this message while installing:

    warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6

    GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL'

    I'm using CentOS 5.6

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