running yahoo messenger on wine in linux?

Question

Iam interested in running Yahoo Messenger 7.0 Windows version in my OpenSUSE Linux using wine. The installation (with $>wine msgr7in.exe) proceeds till it has to write some registry settings where wine shows errors like WIN32_FIND_DATA data not written. The installation "succeeds" but there is no ysmgr*.exe file in the "c:\program files\Yahoo\Install\Messenger" folder, or any other folder in the ".wine" folder.
I know that there are other chat programs that support Yahoo Protocol, but any help in this will be appreciated.

Answer 1

I had a similar problem on Linux but then had to use GAIM which comes bundled with OPENSUSE 10.

Does not have all the features that Yahoo Messenger 7 has but at least it works.



Cheers!

Answer 2

Linux Mint or Ubuntu. I have used both and they are large possibilities to domicile windows or Mac OS. Ubuntu has the team spirit personal computer. With Linux Mint, you may choose the Cinnamon, KDE, Mate, or Xfce interface.

Answer 3

In case, you just want to communicate using Yahoo messenger, go to www.e-messenger.com and login using your Yahoo ID. A pop up window would come up with the same Yahoo friends and interface.