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:
   • jasper-1.700.5-patched-source.tar.bz2
   • Gyach-Enhanced-pYVoiceChat-1.0.5-1.i586.rpm
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 …