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On 01/08/2008 10:30 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 08/01/2008, gagan sharma <ginnytinnyster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> tell me yahoo messenger for ubuntu plz,i want voice and cam chat in ubuntu
> 
> As people have said, there's a built-in Yahoo client. It's called
> Pidgin in Ubuntu 7.10.
> 
> However, it won't do voice or webcam.
> 
> There is also an official Yahoo client which does support viewing
> others' webcams - I've used it in the past. Get it from Yahoo. I'm not
> sure if it can send - I've never set up a webcam on my Ubuntu box. I
> do have an old one I never use, but Linux doesn't recognise it. I must
> try this!
> 
> If you want two-way sound and video, though, your best bet is Skype.
> In my experience, none of the Linux or Mac cross-platform chat clients
> are very good at audio/video. It's mainly a Windows thing. Skype, on
> the other hand, specialises in this.
> 

Gyachi claims to support webcams for Yahoo:
http://gyachi.sourceforge.net/intro.shtml

<quote>
This Yahoo! client for Linux operating system supports almost all of the
features you would expect to find on the official Windows Yahoo! client:
Voice chat, webcams, faders, 'nicknames', audibles, avatars, display
images, and more. Yet, it remains very light-weight and memory-friendly.
GyachE Improved uses Gtk-2 for its user interfaces (Gtk-2 2.0.6 or
better required).
</quote>

Disclaimer: I've not tried it... yet.