cant login with gaim to MSN

madskillz · 10-29-2003, 06:13 PM

i heard that msn wouldnt let any other messenger clients, other than trillian, i think, to logon to msn messenger. is there any other program that might be able to logon to msn?

GJB · 10-29-2003, 06:20 PM

You could use AMSN http://amsn.sourceforge.net it works perfectly.

GJB

madskillz · 10-29-2003, 06:34 PM

oh yeh forgot about this, but i dont know how to install tar.gz files...

im a...NEWBIE :'(

GJB · 10-29-2003, 11:28 PM

Installation

Download amsn-0_xx.tar.gz

$ tar xvzf amsn-0_xx.tar.gz

$ cd msn

$ ./amsn

mmboydell · 10-30-2003, 03:40 AM

The later version of Gaim should also work.
see their latest release at gaim.sourceforge.net

madskillz · 10-30-2003, 10:16 PM

so did you have to download those dependencies to get the latest version to install?

rmanocha · 10-31-2003, 02:12 AM

since mandrake does support rpms, check here:
http://manocha.dnsalias.org/gaim.html
hope this helps