Install Gyachi Yahoo Messenger in Ubuntu 12.04

Posted by HandyTutorial on October 15th, 2012 | 5 Comments

GYachE Improved (gyachi) is a gtk+ Yahoo Client with webcam and room voice chat features. It’s an unofficial fork of the GyachE, intended for bug-fixes and further development. This simple tutorial is going to show you how to install it in Ubuntu using PPA.

UPDATE: Now the ppa has updated with 12.10 Quantal support. This tutorial also works on Ubuntu 12.10.

Install GYachE Improved (Gyachi) from PPA:

The PPA provides the packages of Gyachi for Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, and 10.04. Theses packages are experimental. Use them at your own risk.

To add the PPA repository, open Ubuntu Software Center -> Edit -> Software Sources… -> Other Software tab. Click Add button and type in this code to add PPA:

ppa:adilson/experimental

Then hit Ctrl+Alt+T, copy and paste the 2 commands into terminal one by one and hit enter to update and install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gyachi

Once installed, search for and open it from the Unity dash.
Enjoy!

Tags: instant messaging, Precise

5 Comments

sali says:

October 16, 2012 at 10:17 pm

Special thanks,about three days im tryin’ to install Gyachi at the last i found this solution.Thanksssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

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- HandyTutorial says:
  
  October 17, 2012 at 1:33 am
  
  My pleasure, I’m glad to hear that!
  
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Paul says:

January 5, 2013 at 8:41 pm

This made it SO much easier – thank you. If only these notes were with the download file I might still have some hair.

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Mike Hammer says:

January 17, 2013 at 11:29 pm

Was not able to make this work on mint 14 thats based on ubuntu 12.10

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endang says:

January 19, 2013 at 11:05 am

Thank you very much, I’ll try first

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