Gaim fails to load msn plugin
 

I think I have the plugins installed. I have in the following directory /usr/local/lib/gaim, these two bianarys libmsn.so, libmsn.la

I get this error when I run gaim
"Gaim was unable to load your plugin
the required plugin MSN failed to load"

first you have to enable the plugin by creating an msn account ...
but i think thats because msn changed to the new msn 9 protocol, you can either wait for a new gaim release supporting it or try the newest version or usw amsn or any tool like this already supporting the new protocol

i have heard that ver .71 has the msn connection working...

I should have left this in my original post, I am using the newest gaim, .71.

" first you have to enable the plug-in by creating an msn account "

I have an account, it trys to load the msn plugin but fails. I don't think this is anything to do with them changing protocol. my old version of gaim gave me an error that I was using the wrong protocol(because of the change at msn) that is why I was trying to install the new one.

try to compile it again and see if it works. May be it wasn't compiled the way it was supposed to be.

make sure you read the MSN info at http://gaim.sf.net currently at the very top of the page

Also, if you are using Slack then the following might be useful - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...415#post536415

cheers

Jamie...

Thanks guys. I must need to compile with ssl support.

My problem wasn't that I was missing the SSL support, it was that at run time it wouldn't find the libraries. If you run gaim -d you'll see the file name of the module (or part of module) that failes to load. If you run ldd fileName on this then you'll be able to verify if you problem was the same as mine as you'll get messages say that some of the libraries were not found.

HTH

Jamie...

Hi,
Can you please advice how can I compile with SSL support?

Regards

Thank you guys, it is now working.
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ewijaya,

this is how jharris told me to do it, I am not sure if this is specific to slackware or not(still a lot I do not understand)


this is the link

my post
 

look up my thread reolution gaim/msn

I was having the same problem, thanks for the advice.

with my slackware installation I just had to add this line>>/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 to my /etc/ld.so.conf. then ran the command /sbin/ldconfig. Then it compiled with the needed ssl support.

With redhat linux that method did not work I did it this way. During the ./configure stage you need to show the location of your libraries and includes that are nessasary for ssl. I did not have the needed includes with my redhat installation, I had to copy them over from my slackware install. if you run this command in you gaim directory you will get the needed instuctions
./configure --help
below is part of that file
---------------------------------------------------------------------
--with-nspr-includes=PREFIX Specify location of Mozilla nspr4 includes.
--with-nspr-libs=PREFIX Specify location of Mozilla nsp4 libs.
--with-nss-includes=PREFIX Specify location of Mozilla nss3 includes.
--with-nss-libs=PREFIX Specify location of Mozilla nss3 libs.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
you will need to show where the fiels are like this
./configure --(each of the four above)