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everythign has been going fairly smooth then tonight while I was using kopete msn died...it reconnects but doesnt' message people on my list...wtf....gaim says msn protocal isn't supported, what am I missing? Help...
well its the gaim that came w/ suse 9.0 personal. I just ran online update and it ran a package update for gaim....*fingers crossed*
Edit Nope POS still doesn't work. Same stupid error...protocal not supported. How do I fix this? I looked for another version of gaim, couldn't find one my system agreed with. I used amsn w/ redhat a long time ago but I can't seem to figure that out either.
Can't you install from the Platform-independent source RPMs?
Still, it's odd. I remember that problem, but that is quite a few versions back. You are not just having trouble because MSN is unstable these days?
I'm also disappointed with the 5 post min of this forum. I was typing away my problem, nice and detailed regarding VNC and tried to post - wham - "too bad you can't post cause you are a newbie". Yikes. Hit the back button and all info was lost.
Yup - figured that- I was just all disgruntled at the time of that posting. I understand completely. I've been using this site almost exclusively to build up two SUSE 9.1 Pros (1 home, 1 work) for eventual conversion of me from a Windows guy to Linux - just plain ole tired of Windows issues. Pretty much anything I searched for - I ended up here to get the answer - many many thanks.
does anyone else have the problem when they try to run amsn in suse 9.2 and it says it doesn't have the "wish" command , or some such tale relating loosely to that? or is it just something i've done incredibly wrong?
If wish command doesn't exist, then you don't have tcl/tk correctly installed.
If "wish amsn" works, but "./amsn" doesn't, edit 'amsn' file and set the
correct path to 'wish' in the first line. By default it's set to:
/usr/bin/wish
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