MSN Messenger

ryanstrayer · 01-25-2002, 04:37 PM

Okay I see a lot of people using the MSN Messenger Engine on Linux... only 1 question... where is the documentation??? I downloaded it, installed it... loaded it... and that's as far as I got. I can't figure out how to configure anything. What gives?!

trickykid · 01-25-2002, 05:10 PM

which msn messenger engine?

ryanstrayer · 01-25-2002, 05:48 PM

There is only one MSSE or whatever it's called... the

trickykid · 01-25-2002, 06:02 PM

no there is more than that one.. i use lmme which works at the command line.. non graphical msn to chat.. pretty cool to use when not using X at times..
screenshot of it i made right here: http://www.netcom.com/~jabent/lmme.jpg

ryanstrayer · 01-25-2002, 06:21 PM

Yea - that's it.. thats the one I was talking about.. no docs. BUT, I have since found GAIM which is supposed to support MSN.. but .. LOL .. again, I see screen shots of it, but no docs or plugins that I can find at all. From what I've seen, I'd rather use the GAIM client in X, or something a lot like it.. any idears?

trickykid · 01-25-2002, 06:33 PM

are you downloading the rpm or tar.gz files.. ?? with rpm, you can usually install with:

rpm -i /name-of-file.rpm

tar.gz like this:

tar xzf /name-of-file.tar.gz

then read the install and readme docs to install.

or just goto the homepage.. have you tried it ?? http://gaim.sourceforge.net/documentation.php

ryanstrayer · 01-25-2002, 06:35 PM

Yep done all of that .. it's installed. But only support I see is for AOL. I've checked the home page and found no plug-ins for MSN compatibility. Only MSN related items I found where for smiley's and other name updates, that sort of thing. The documentation of the home page for MSN Support says "Not yet written" ... like I said, I've done as much searching as I can, and can find nothing??

barazor · 01-25-2002, 08:10 PM

i use gaim, to load up the msn one, go to

tools > plugins

then click load, go to /usr/local/lib/gaim, and load up libmsn.so or any of the other plugins

ryanstrayer · 01-26-2002, 10:14 AM

Thanks, that was it. Just for grins, I did a grep on the text files in the .tar file, and that path was buried in one of the install files... wasn't very apparent. Thanks for the help!

kervin · 01-26-2002, 06:10 PM

http://msn.compucreations.com/ works well.