just installed gaim 0.71 it compiled ok. but now when i start it it says
The required plugin MSN was unable to load.
How do i fix this?

Go here and look under the "using Gaim" section.

Hope this helps.

i read that , it does not help

The Gaim FAQ says that is loaded automatically when you add the account. What happens to you when you try to use it? What is the full error message? Could you load the program via a terminal, then try to use MSN and then post the results from the terminal.

Have you tried aMSN? It works just like MSN Messenger.

did you check in their IRC channel? they have some real nice guys in there.
i m using 0.71 right now and doesn't seem to be any problem to me. btw did you compile with ssl or without?
i have heard that without ssl is causing some problems in connecting to msn

i run it from the console . just when it starts it gives this error
The required plugin MSN was unable to load.
i cant add msn users because i cant choose the msn protocol from the list , its not there.
I'm sure the plugin is there i checked. its called libmsn.so and it's in /usr/local/lib/gaim with other protocol plugins.
i didnt compile it with ssl i guess. just did configure, make ,make install.
i'll try to compile 0.70 if that does not find msn . i'll try amsn

I'm having the same problem. I just rolled back to 0.70 till someone figures out why its missing the msn plugin.

I am having the same problem too. Anybody has experience to tackle it?

i just checked their IRC channel. MSN does require SSL to work. i didn't experience any problems with MSN cos i always compile with SSL (cos of Jabber).
imo you all should upgrade to 0.71 with SSL cos another update to MSN protocol is in the air. you ppl might face difficulties later.

isn't SSL configured by default?

nope it is not. you have to tell it at the time of configure by passing parameters like
--enable-gnutls=yes or --enable-nss=yes
depending on what libraries you have.

checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.1.4 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.0.1... Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'glib-2.0' found

configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.1.4 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.0.1) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.


I get this error when i try to "./configure" gtk+-2.2.4
But i do have it.. checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.2.1)

So what's the deal??

I had this problem too. In the end, I modified the gaim.Slackbuild script
from the slack source to make a gaim-0.71 package with MSN support.
Note: if you have gnuls, this is probably not your best solution.

Here's the lines that do the work:
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mcpu=i686" \
LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 \
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--enable-nss=yes \
--with-nspr-libs=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 \
--with-nspr-includes=/usr/include/mozilla-1.4/nspr \
--with-nss-libs=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 \
--with-nss-includes=/usr/include/mozilla-1.4/nss \
--enable-tcl \
--enable-tk \
--with-tkconfig=/usr/lib \
--with-tclconfig=/usr/lib \
--disable-gtkspell \
i486-slackware-linux 1>config.log 2>&1
LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 make
LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 make install DESTDIR=$PKG

The downside is that Gaim depends on the Mozilla-1.4 package
when built this way. You could reduce the pain somewhat by
linking all the mozilla-1.4 directories to just mozilla, and maintaining
that link as Mozilla is upgraded. Or if you didn't mind larger
footprints, statically link it with --enable-nss=static and then
you could remove Mozilla entirely if you wanted.

LD_RUN_PATH is for the linker so I don't have to put the mozilla libs
in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH at run-time. Its probably only needed
in the "make" stage.

Remove the DESTDIR=$PKG stuff if you aren't using the slackbuild
script.

The tcl/tk lines won't work if you have tcl8.4 -- the stupid
config script looks specifically for version 8.3 only.

I disabled gtk-spell because I don't have the package installed.

Good luck.
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Ken

so i'm enough of a newb that i dindt understand much of what that last guy said...
anyway im back to the original question; i got it all working exept for msn. the faq on teh gaim site told me:

You did not compile with SSL support. As of protocol version 9, the MSN protocol requires the use of SSL, which gaim provides by either GnuTls or the combination of NSS and NSPR from the Mozilla project. Install one or both of these and recompile Gaim.

Can anybody tell me in short, simple, english words how i can accomplish this? a link to some sort of file, maybe?
if this requires compiling a kernel, or whatever i think i may have to give up until i'm a bit better at all this.
Have mercy on me.

What version of Slackware are you running?

Gaim on my box (Slack 9.1) failed because at compile time it found the Mozilla SSL client library and said it was going to use that. But at run time it was unable to fine it. I simply had to edit my /etc/ld.so.conf to include the following line then runMind you if your Mozilla libraries are in a different place, or if your Gaim didn't link against the Moz libs then you'll need to specify a different location.

I found this out by starting gaim -d then running ldd on the plugin that it said it couldn't load.

HTH

Jamie...