msn in linux (amsn and gaim not working)
I want a msn messenger client for RH linux, I tryed installing amsn from rpm but the package manager crashed with an error. I managed however to install gaim completly but upon adding my accounts only AOL and TOS were available for chat protocols, and nothing for msn.
Is it posible to get a msn chat client in linux or am I doing something wrong? Obviously very new to linux. 1 day... |
I have gaim working perfet with my msn accounts, with gaim, even the hotmail email notifications works.
forget the rpm, compile from the source to have a better results. |
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Ok these are the errors I get when trying to execute amsn
There was an error launching the application. Details: Failed to execute child process "amsn" (No such file or directory) I have installed the tcl/tk already with ActiveStates pre compiled binaries. |
Whats your version of gaim? Many older versions cannot use the latest SSL 9 protocol...
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Try downloading the tar.gz for amsn, extract it to /usr/share, and execute it with
/usr/share/msn/amsn If this works with version 0.83, I suggest d/l the CVS version from the projects page, It's stable and comes with more extras :) Best Regards, Sam Black |
Ok it is version 8.3 of amsn I have, it untared it into a directory inside my home and now when I try the command
/usr/share/msn/amsn i get this instead: bash: /usr/share/msn/amsn: No such file or directory |
well all u need to do for amsn is untar the directory...go into the untarred directory...and type ./amsn
that will do it for you. as for gaim here is a short howto. 1)rpm -qa | grep gaim whatever u get, copy that and paste in into the next command: rpm -e (whatever u got from previous command). 2)go to rpmseek.org and download the latest nss and nspr libraries. 3)go to gaim.sourceforge.net and download the latest gaim build. 4)install the nss and nspr libraries: rpm -Uvh nspr*.rpm (where * is the version no.--u can use tab for auto completion) rpm -Uvh nss*.rpm (*--same as above) if everything goes well then go on else try to solve the problems. 5)type rpm -Uvh gaim*.rpm (*--same as above) if you do not get any serious errors like gtk or no SSL support or no gcc or glibc then u r good to go. all you do then is: rpm -Uvh --nodeps gaim*.rpm now all u do is type gaim on the console and ur new gaim with MSN will be working for you. hope this helped. |
I was following your directions for gaim and it was prity clear except on the rpm -e ... it froze, gave no errors but would not return to the prompt. So I tryed closeing the prompt and bringing it back up, this time after downloading the nss and nspr
rpm -Uvh nsspr...... and this did the same, it froze but gave no errors. Must be doing something wrong. But I feel so stupid this isnt working, your directions are so clear. |
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If your amsn still not working try these steps, i have also face some hard time with amsn but with these stpes it start work for me. Download amsn-0_xx.tar.gz tar xvzf amsn-0_xx.tar.gz cd msn ./amsn or wish amsn If command wish is not found, you need to download and install tcl/tk packages (tcl & tk). some time game and amsn does not logon, i solve this problem by enterning isp or if u are behing Proxy server and DNS server IP address in your lan card dns entries. i wish u solve this proble wish u best of luck Thanks |
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i cant help u ne more than this.maybe you should go check out the syslog or the bash logs(if bash does log everything).that might help. l8r |
i you have python(most distros do) then theres a lovely little textmode msn client called pebrot, its not perfect but its pretty good, i like it cos it means wherever i am if the net(ssh) is available so is msn.
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I apreciate all the help. Indeed I am logged in as root. I downloaded for nss and nspr as rpm, but I apreciate all the help you have given me and I wont give up, for now I am gona try the text mode pebrot but I have kept in mind everything you all have said.
I am gona also try ccmsn and kopete soon. Once again I thank all. |
hey man, i was under exactly the same situation as u and i spent a week trying to resolve it.
msn protocol of gaim does not work rite off the back for red hat 9, u have to go thru a series of compiling steps in order to get msn online under gaim. here's what i did and it WORKS!!! 1> download & compile latest version GNUTLS 2> if it gives u dependencies errors, then follow whatever it directs u to and download all other neccessary libraries (i compiled 3 other dependency libraries, can't remember specifically tho) 3> re-configure & compile gaim (latest version is 0.74) 4> boom, working msn on gaim |
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