Linux MSN Messenger
 

hi all,

well, one of the really important things that stops me from migrating to linux is that i couldn't find a real clone for msn messenger ...

i tryed amsn .. it looks nice and cool but couldn't run it cause am behind a firewall.. tryed many ways and no use .. i tried kmerlin ... i couldn't compile it under redhat 8.0 and the developers said that they would fix this .. but i can't wait!

what am looking for is something really very cloney to windows msn messenger and has the ability to run behind a firewall .. and the most important thing is that .. it could read and write arabic words .. i can read and write on the browser and files but some softwares give me "?????? ??" ..

any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated

thanks

ok i went for gaim .. i had it in rh8.0 and loaded the libmsn protocol .. then a added an account in the accounts ... when i try to sin on . it directly gives me an error saying that
murshed@hotmail.com was unableto sign on: Couldn't connect to host.


note: am behind a firewall ... am using a laptop with win2000/rh8.0 i can access msn messenger in win2000 perfectly ..

i then said why shouldn't i install the latest rpm .. and i did .. and got this error:

the following packages could not be found on your system.
Installation cannot continue until they are installed.
unlocatable package:
libexpat.so.1
libgtkspell.so.0
libperl.so.5.8
all requred by gaim



any suggestions?

if there is a software other thatn gaim it would be fine ..
thanks

gaim is easily the best around. never used any IM's across a proxy but i think there are settings in gaim somewhere. as for the deps, go to rpmfind.net and search for those files.

i tried installing from source ... and got this when i finished ./configure



*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
configure: error:
*** GLib is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib
*** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is
*** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.



now what?
thanks

tried searching this site for all these trivial errors??

install glib-devel.rpm

i clicked on options ... general >> proxy

choosed socks4 .. i've put the 192.168.0.1 as host .. and 1080 as the port ..

no changes .. same error

thats getting me crazy ..
i tried installing everybuddy from source ... and when i configure i get this:

checking for artsc-config... /usr/bin/artsc-config
checking for ARTS... automatic: no
*** Could not run ARTS test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means ARTS was incorrectly installed
*** or that you have moved ARTS since it was installed. In the latter case, you
*** may want to edit the artsc-config script: /usr/bin/artsc-config
checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
checking for gtk-config... no
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
checking for X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h... yes
checking for XScreenSaverRegister in -lXext... no
checking for XScreenSaverRegister in -lXExExt... no



i tried lots of ways and softwares and couldn't make any of them work!

everybuddy is shit. but like i said earlier, you need to install the -devel packages. if you EVER get something missing in a configure failure, ALWAYS go to rpmfind.net and search for it. even if you don't want RPM's it's the best way to find out what you want.

ok .. well i will try installing them when i fix my ftp thingy..

well i choosed socks5 as the protocol and it seemed to be working but! it says Authentication Failed everytime
i used 3 differenct accounts and am sure that the username and password are correct .. but it stays saying Authentication failed

ideas?

well .. i managed to log on using gaim thanks:)


but there is still one big problem .. i can't read or write arabic words there .. when i write in arabic i see squares ..! but when i enter .. the other side can read the arabic words i write .. and when they write in arabic .. i read arabic words but upside down or the other way around or something looool ...

any suggestions?

[root@localhost Binaries & Sources]# rpm -iv glib-1.2.10-8.i386.rpm
Preparing packages for installation...
package glib-1.2.10-8 is already installed
[root@localhost Binaries & Sources]#


what could be the problem?

murshed, please don't be offended but I have already told you EXACTLY what to do a number of times in this very thread. READ!

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...683#post207683
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...693#post207693

sorry chris i didn't see your first post ..
i will try to
install glib-devel.rpm

and come back ..

ccmsn
http://msn.compucreations.com/
it has not good emoticons like amsn but solid as a rock.