Installing aMSN on Linux
 

How do I install aMSN on Linux?

On the off chance it may work, you could try wine. The MSN program relies heavily on the win32 api so I doubt it is possible.

If you use a modem to connect to the internet in windows and you have an MSN account, you could just make a manaul ppp connection in linux without the MSN software and it will work.

The only dail up that is a problem is AOL and Netzero because they don't use the standard ppp authentication and instead they use some off the wall way and it's undocumented. Why they do, I have no idea in the world. Seems just like an overcomplication.

go to amsn sourceforge and download the tar.gz file to your home directory. once it's downloaded, untar it by opening a terminal and typing:

tar -xzvf amsn-0_94.tar.gz

it will create new directory in your home directory called amsn. the run script is in there, labeled "amsn"

i created a link to it by opening a terminal and typing

su
password
ln -s ~/amsn-0_94/amsn /usr/bin/amsn

this way all i need to do is type amsn into a run command :)

I have Red Hat Linux 9, it doesn't say what I should download, maybe should I get Fedora 'cus they're made by Red Hat

If you can find an amsn rpm it would probably work on Redhat 9, but I agree with you, it maybe best to get Fedora since Redhat 9 and below are now legacy distros.

OTOH, you could just install gaim. It works well with MSN. ;)

download the amsn-0_94 tarball from the page i showed...it doesn't actually require anything from your system..it installs itself into it's own directory...and runs from there...