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Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is the heir of the Everybuddy project, and aims to continue improving the program and addressing its shortcomings.

Install alien using the following command

sudo apt-get install alien

Now you need to download latest ayttm rpm from here and convert it to a deb:

sudo alien ayttm-0.5.0-45.i386.rpm

and install using the following command

sudo dpkg -i ayttm_0.5.0-46_i386.deb

starting ayttm will probably generate a message about not finding a library libjasper-1.701.so.1 which is used for yahoo webcam.

To get rid of the jasper lib warning, install it:

sudo apt-get install libjasper1

and make a link to simulate the correct version:

sudo ln -s libjasper.so.1 /usr/lib/libjasper-1.701.so.1

That’s it, ayttm works again.