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Gyach Enhanced – YahooIM with webcam on Debian Gnu\Linux

Things stopping me from removing windows XP from my laptop and install Debian are webcam with YahooIM. Now that I found Gyach Enhanced, I guess i can say sayonara to XP.

Steps to install Gyach Enhanced on Debian sarge ( copied from here )

  1. Check if gpgme, mcrypt, gtk2, alien are installed, if not install.
    • Some thing like apt-cache search …. ( gpgme, mcrypt, gtk2, alien)
    • apt-get install … (missing packages)
  2. Then go here and dowload the following packages:
  3. Next bunzip, untar jasper and install jasper
    • tar -jxvf jasper-1.700.5-patched-source.tar.bz2
    • cd jasper-1.700.5 (directory created by untarring)
    • ./configure
    • make
    • su ;;;login as root
    • make install
    • ldcofig
    • exit ;;;exit from root login
  4. Then on to main pacakage
    • Convert Gyach-Enhanced….rpm file to debian by issuing:

      alien -d Gyach-Enhanced-pYVoiceChat-1.0.5-1.i586.rpm

    • Using dpkg install debian file generated from previous step

      dpkg -i gyach-enhanced-pyvoicechat_1.0.5-2_i386.deb

  5. That was not all for me.
    • When I started gyach, I got following error:

      gyach: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    • apt-cache search libltdl

      …
      libltdl3 – A system independent dlopen wrapper for GNU libtool
      …

    • apt-get install libltdl3
  6. Go fix webcam …
Posted by Jai Bharat Debian, Free Software, GNU\Linux Subscribe to RSS feed

4 Comments on Gyach Enhanced – YahooIM with webcam on Debian Gnu\Linux

  1. Anand says:
    11/9/2004 at 4:56 pm

    how good is it ?? I\’ll be downloading it tomorrow and try it on Debian, Ubuntu and Xandros OCE. I came across your post and could\’nt resist asking. Please let me know.

  2. Jai Bharat says:
    11/9/2004 at 11:27 pm

    I’ve not tested it much. I still could not get my webcam work. I’ll try it only on sundays(Only day that I use messenger). GyachE is good just as messenger, atleast better anything else on Debian. Once I fix my webcam, I’ll know how good is webcam support in GyachE.

  3. ninja says:
    7/4/2005 at 7:06 pm

    apt-get install libltdl3; this little command helped a noob get his gyach on

  4. Alan Pater says:
    1/14/2006 at 3:22 am

    I was having a lot of trouble getting a webcam to work, until I found EasyCam which installs drivers for a lot of webcams. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Webcam

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