Kopete for CentOS 5 has not been able to log into Yahoo for a pretty lengthy amount of time so I wanted to sit down today and figure out why and see if I could fix it. Well upon my search I discovered that the folks over at RHEL where not going to fix it you can read the bug report if you like but it basically says they are not gonna fix it. This fired up my beans so I had to try, I mean cmon who can resist a challenge. So I sat down and got to work.
What I did to fix this was grab the src.rpm from the repo for kdenetwork. I then upgraded Kopete inside the rpm to 12.7 then patched the yahoo protocol. Now Yahoo works perfectly with Kopete. You can read my bug report for CentOS HERE. All in all a success.
To update your version of Kopete from the link above rpms4centos grab the kdenetwork rpm. Now you will first need to “yum remove kdenetwork” then as root “rpm -Uvh kdenetwork” that will get the new Kopete installed for you. The devel and debug rpms are in there as well if you need them along with the src.rpms which are in the srcrpms directory.
On a side not while working all this out today, if you are gonna use google talk with kopete grab the qca-tls rpm as well and install via “rpm -Uvh qca-tls” this is needed for the SSL protocol that google talk uses.
All in all a productive experiment and I hope it can help others out as well.
