installing yahoo on ubuntu?

[subscrive]

hi,
i tried to install yahoo on my ubuntu,

the site says "Debian Linux

1. Save the file to your machine.
2. Log in as root and type: dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb to install the application.
3. Run /usr/bin/ymessenger from X Window to launch the application."



but i am getting following errors:

amitg@poonawala:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i ./ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 68057 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ymessenger 1.0.4_1 (using ./ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ymessenger ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ymessenger:
ymessenger depends on libssl0.9.6; however:
Package libssl0.9.6 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ymessenger (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ymessenger
amitg@poonawala:~/Desktop$

also -->
"amitg@poonawala:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install ./ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package .
amitg@poonawala:~/Desktop$"


please help me in installing this.

i thought that debian auto resolves the dependancies.

i dont understand why its behaving like rpm based system?

[Vergil83]

the reason it is not working is because dpkg doesn't do dependancies issues. You can't apt-get because you downloaded it from another site
try

apt-get install libssl0.9.6

then

dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb

[subscrive]

so doesnt apt-get take care of the dependancy?

i thought that in such situations, the apt-get or the dpkg downloads the libs from the ubuntu site and then continues with the mail software install.

this is so very bad.

so now what s the diff betw rpm and deb based distro?

[aysiu]

I'm not sure if this is the reason it's not working, but you're typing it in wrong. The instructions say type

sudo dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb

, but you're typing

sudo dpkg -i ./ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb

. Why are you putting a ./ in front of ymessenger?

[aysiu]

so doesnt apt-get take care of the dependancy?

i thought that in such situations, the apt-get or the dpkg downloads the libs from the ubuntu site and then continues with the mail software install.

this is so very bad.

so now what s the diff betw rpm and deb based distro?

dpkg is different from apt-get. apt-get draws from the repositories. dpkg installs a very particular file.

[subscrive]

"but you're typing
Code:
sudo dpkg -i ./ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb"

I tired both sudo dpkg -i ./ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb and sudo dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb



btw after installing anything from such dpkg method, how do I uninstall it?

[aysiu]

btw after installing anything from such dpkg method, how do I uninstall it?

Oddly enough, even though dpkg doesn't use apt-get to install dependencies, after installing software using dpkg, I see these newly installed packages in my Synaptic Package Manager as if they'd been installed with apt-get, so I'd imagine you can just sudo apt-get remove yahoo...

[Vergil83]

you can use dpkg to uninstall too

dpkg --remove program_name

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html

[flipper]

I recieved the exact same issue as subscrive and after reading this thread from start to finish I did manage to get it to unpack if you will. However it ended up as a "broken" package (for lack of better description). I tried to repair it using the Synaptic package manager but no dice. So I deleted it and started over from scratch and down loaded it again, but now it says "No file or package exist" yet I can see it and I can click to see its properties. Any help would be much appreciated, as I would rather spend the next ten years pulling my hair out learning this than giving another nickle or 10 seconds of my time to Bill Gatus of Borg.

Thanks, Flip

[gruven]

You may want to try to enable the "universe" and "multiverse" repositories, and just type in

sudo apt-get install ymessenger

or whatever the messengers name is. Or, even better, open synaptic, enable the extra repositories (instructions on how to do this are in the ubuntu wiki) and do a search for "yahoo" or "ymessenger". Then, just install it from the repos.