Ok, im just gonna make a quick post how I got my MSN working again. Might be of some help for someone. Oh BTW, im too lazy to actually compile stuff so I extremely grateful to the people who made these packages..

1: I downloaded latest Gaim http://www.slacky.it/download/source....71-i486-1.tgz
As root, "upgradepkg gaim-0.71-i486-1.tgz".

2: Download http://www.slacky.it/download/librer...8-noarch-1.tgz
As root, "installpkg nss-3.8-noarch-1.tgz"

3: Download http://www.slacky.it/download/librer...3-noarch-1.tgz
As root, "installpkg nspr-4.3-noarch-1.tgz"

Fire up Gaim and all should work well.

Any comments if this is a good or bad way to install would be appriciated.

/N

hey thanks for that input....
i started using amsn .. but if that worked for u i'll give it a try

Thanks again..

Sorry I'm a bewb. What does "upgradepkg gaim-0.71-i486-1.tgz" mean? Typing it literally doesn't work. What do I do?

Many thanks, reetep.

upgradepkg is the Slackware command to upgrade a package. You want to download the RPMs from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/g...6.rpm?download and use rpm -Uvh gaim-0.71-1rh9.i386.rpm .

cheers

Jamie...

that's great - worked for me. Thanks everyone.

Yeah GAIM works fine now, with the 0.71 update. Ya guys should know by now that GAIM will do whatever possible to get ya back up and running

aMSN is ok, but I find GAIM to be much quicker.

Mike

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

code:

/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4
then run

code:

ldconfig
Mind 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...


Brilliant! That did it for me. It's a shame I have no clue why it works this way (still figuring out linuyx) but it does the job!

When you have a program that uses shared libraries it only looks in specific locations for those libraries. As the Mozilla libraries were not in that list of locations the plugin could not find them, so it coudn't be executed.

cheers

Jamie...

I fixed one of those problems by compiling libraries statically into gaim -- that made it finally get through make.

However, I still got the "unable to find MSN plugin" error, when the plugin is definitely there, in the same directory as the other plugins.

HOwever, I followed Speedfreak's instructions on my slackware box, and it worked great!

Thanks

-Shade

thanks for the input dude.

I'm really confused by all this. I'm using Mozilla 1.4.1 which seems to be installed in /usr/local/mozilla and not /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4. I edited my /etc/ld.so.conf file to include this directory. I than ran ldconfig and then configure, make and make install but am still not able to get MSN loaded. I'm running on Red Hat 8.0. I've seen several references to installing gaim with SSL support but nothing on how to do that. Am I supposed to add a flag after ./configure? Somewhere else? This has been a really frustrating week because I've done everything that gaim.sourceforge.net has told me to no avail.

Thank you for your help.

So aMSN still works as well despite the lockout? That's good news, I guess.

I tried aMSN once and while I liked the way it indicated who had you on their list and who didn't, the fact it only did MSN and looked positively shocking made me run screaming back to Gaim (and until recently, Sim for ICQ until I discovered completely by accident that Gaim has at least partially implemented ICQ v8 server side contact lists).

mine recompiled with the gnutls enabled, but i still couldnt get gaim to run msn

I am using Red Hat Linux 9 and try to Install/Upgrade Gaim 0.71 and got the following error.
I donloaded the RPM pakage from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/...86.rpm?download
What do do Please help!!!


rpm -Uvh gaim-0.71-1rh9.i386.rpm
warning: gaim-0.71-1rh9.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 883c1c14
error: Failed dependencies:
libgtkspell.so.0 is needed by gaim-0.71-1rh9
libtk8.3.so is needed by gaim-0.71-1rh9

I had the same problem. Add the dependencies first and then try again.

Goto www.rpmfind.net (or similar) and search for libgtkspell.so.0, identify the file you need, download it, install.

Repeat for libtk8.3.so

Then try again with gaim.