I've been working in linux today. After yesterday's success with ypops. I wanted to get it working on linux as well. Unfortunately there does not appear to be an ubuntu package for ypops available ( though I did not look too hard).
So, I went to sourceforge for the source but it did not compile. Both the most recent CVS and the code tagged YPOPS_0_9_5_1 does not compile. However, from searching through the ypops forums, I did find the following:
YPOPs! 0.9.5.1 sources for UNIX platform
Posted by Thomas Skariah in this ypops forum entry along with instructions for compiling.
Thank you Thomas.
This code compiles and links. I glanced at the differences between Thomas's version and the cvs code and it all looks good.
Having compiled and linked the code I put my new ypops binary into /usr/local/bin . To get it to start up automatically on ubuntu 8.04, I created a file called /etc/event.d/ypops with the following content:
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description "start ypops"
author "Dave"
start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5
console output
exec /usr/local/bin/ypops
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This file instructs upstart to start ypops .
Having done all this I can read my yahoo e-mail with thunderbird using localhost as my server.
2 comments:
There is already a Ubuntu deb package available for YPOPs!. You could check here: YPOPs! for Ubuntu
bully,
Good point - I should have mentioned it.
I had seen that but I wanted to compile the code myself - mostly just as a matter of principle.
In fact, the deb package is provided by the same guy who modified the code to work on linux.
- Dave
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