Problem with yahoo messenger, Fedora 7

[Rahul Sundaram]

Arnab Biswas wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to install yahoo messenger in Fedora 7. The steps I am 
> following are :
> 
> 1. Download rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm from messenger.yahoo.com 
> <http://messenger.yahoo.com/>
> 
> 2. login as root
> 
> 3. rpm -ihv rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
> 
> It is giving the error :
> 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         gdk-pixbuf >= 0.8.0 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386
>         libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386
> 
> 4. So I tried with "rpm -ihv --nodeps rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm"
> 

Wrong move. Yum localinstall <package.rpm> would have work better. Yahoo 
messenger on Linux offers nothing over Gaim/Pidgin or Kopete afaik. So I 
would recommend using these instead.

Rahul

Ps: fedora-list is more appropriate if it is not a laptop specific 
question.