Yahoo messenger with wine on Ubuntu

Details:
OS: Ubuntu 9.04, 2.6.28-14 kernel
Wine: 1.1.26. Installed along with wine-gecko.

Steps-by-step.
1. Install wine. I used version 1.1.26 but I think older will also do. (You can download from here)



2. Open up a terminal and run the winecfg command. It will set up the wine environment on the current user. Full path is: /home/$username/.wine/drive_c . Press cancel afterwards.

3. Install Macromedia flash player 9. Go to oldversion.com and search for it there. Then install it using wine flash9p.exe

4. Download from here and import the ym9.reg. Change the overrides to "Native then Builtin" and mpr.dll to Builtin. Use regedit import ym9.reg .

5. Copy the dlls to /home/$username/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 folder (list is here). In the list proposed by Patriot there were some folders .. x86_[big name]. I did not use those. Also I got my dlls from XP only.

6. Get the yahoo web installer. I used that because it also installs flash 10, which is also needed. Use wine msgr9us.exe. If the install progress hangs, just press CTRL+C in the terminal and run again the installer.

7. Have fun. If you're a girl, send me a kiss and think about me when you're sleeping

Waiting for reviews.

Tip: If the flash ads do not load then most probably ym will crash. Reinstall or restart pc (yeah.. i know... ).

Patriot wrote:

Q1. How to gain access to main menu ? A1. Click on the desired ym window and press alt key or if you know the menu shortcut then press alt+menu_shortcut (ex: alt+m in main window). Q2. I get black bar in main window ? A2. Alphablending not fully working in wine. Set your contacts to compact list. Q6. How do I close/minimize the IMwindow ? A6. The (wine botched) skinning makes the hotzones a little off. Move your mouse a little lower to get the min/max/close button highlighted. Using the taskbar also works.

Working: Buzz, IMVironment, Audibles, Fonts, Smileys, Avatars, Photo Sharing, Archive, Webcam, Calling.

Known Bugs:
- When trying to add a new contact to your list, ym will crash.
- Games require java. Try installing that and see if they work.

Everything else not tested.

Source: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=335770#335770

How to assign a drive letter on Windows XP

To assign a drive letter to a drive, a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:

1. Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.
   
   Note If you do not see Performance and Maintenance, go to step 3. Performance and Maintenance appears in Control Panel only if you use Category view. If you use Classic view, Performance and Maintenance does not appear.
3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane.
4. Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
5. Click Add.
6. Click Assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, and then either accept the default drive letter or click the drive letter that you want to use.
7. Click OK.

The drive letter is assigned to the drive, to the partition, or to the volume that you specified, and then that drive letter appears in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the Disk Management tool.

Yahoo messenger on linux

Yahoo messenger can't install on linux. Pidgin etc. messengers can't support video and voice call.
I'm informing you that ekiga is can do voice call to yahoo messenger. And messenger gYachi is supports camera.

How to call to Yahoo messenger from Linux by ekiga

1. Configure your ekiga.
for beginners register an account through http://ekiga.net, ekiga setup wizard will guide you through the process. but any sip account/provider will do.


2. Calling a yahoo messenger user
now you can call a yahoo messenger user, by just typing the username in the sip address bar like this someuser_at_yahoo.com@yahoo.gtalk2voip.com or someuser%yahoo.com@yahoo.gtalk2voip.com ie john_at_yahoo.com@yahoo.gtalk2voip.com or john%yahoo.com@yahoo.gtalk2voip.com

3. The catch: yahoo messenger user must accept a buddy invitation from gtalk2voip
submit the YM username to www.gtalk2voip.com
the YM user must accept the buddy invitation from gtalk2voip service in order to recieve the call from your sip network. so before calling, advice user to accept the invitation the name of gtalk2voip buddy will look like this gtalk2voipXXX@yahoo.com where XXX is a number, ie gtalk2voip005@yahoo.com after the user accepts the invitation, he/she can answer your call and the next time you call.

* the YM user can always remove the gtalk2voip buddy if the user wishes not to recieve calls through this gateway

* This howto is also apliccable to any sip based softphones
gizmo even integrates this service with version 3.0 and perhaps onwards.

* the service is free
(This how to is from: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-414121.html)

How to install gYachi

1. Open sources.list
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add this lines. Then save and close:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/loell/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/loell/ubuntu jaunty main

3. Accept PGP key by this commands:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xc23b005d874996dc8d03a3c0d0d3c959db2035a6
sudo apt-get update

4. Now you can install gYachi
sudo apt-get install gyachi

OK now go to Applications -> Internet -> gYachi Emproved

Yahoo messenger smileys for pidgin

Click here

Enjoy ;)

Photoshop CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Corel Draw X3 on Ubuntu with wine

Running Photoshop CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Corel Draw X3 portable on Ubuntu with wine.

HOWTO:
Installation currently fails under wine versions later than 1.1.17
Hence, the applications was installed using 1.1.17, not 1.1.20.

Installing has to be done in an earlier wine version, 1.1.17 (or perhaps 1.1.16).
The exceptions being that one more thing is needed for the install to work properly, winetricks ie6 and that I used the 1.1.17 version.

Here follows the shamelessly stolen and edited installation guide:
1. If you have used wine before, please start of with a clean .wine folder. Or bottle you Photoshop by doing every action with a specific wineprefix.
2. Install Wine 1.1.17 from http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html
3. Download winetricks and install necessary libraries. Also make sure you have a decent driver for your graphics card installed.

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005 ie6
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

3. LANG=C before the following command like this:
LANG=C wine Setup.exe
4. To fix the text-layer bug, put atmlib.dll in “~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system 32″. You can download it from several places if you search it on google.
5. Install Wine 1.1.20 from http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html(or your package manager), to fix the menu bar bug.
6. Try running.

You can delete /home/[USER]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Updater6/Adobe_Updater.exe to stop adobe updater (or unselect it during installation way down in the unexpanded list)

I am not sure why, but on my screen I had to change the UI font size(preferences->interface->UI Font size) to "medium" in the application, or else it would look quite crappy. After that, it looked great!

I have only tried with clean .wine-directories, but it might work with used ones as well.
I also had some problems seeing the checkboxes during installation, but it was pretty easy to find them(after some clicking).

I copied this post from appdb.winehq.org . Thank you for Nicklas Börjesson.
I tried it on Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04 ;)

To run coreldraw X3 portable you need to copy mfc40.dll to wine system32 folder.

That's it! Enjoy ;)

If you have an any problem please comment here.

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