The Good Gaim Post
Do a search on 'gaim' here and you'll find literally dozens of threads, and hundreds of replies. I've spent the last few days reading just about all of them.
Nothing was working, and I managed to follow several unrelated directions just to see if I had some obscure setup going on, or if there was a variable I was missing. NSS and NSPR were installed, GTK was installed, I tried a few different RPMs, even the .tar and the '--with-nss-include=\path\to\nss' configure option. Nothing. Finally after heading back to the Gaim site, I decided to start again and make sure everything was where it needed to be on my system. The gaim documentation says I may need to edit my /etc/lib.so.conf, which I had done originally. As per those docs, I added /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 and ran ldconfig as root. This time through, I did a ls /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 and was given: no such file or directory. Duh. There WAS no /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4. It was /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1 I altered /etc/lib.so.conf, reran ldconfig, removed the RPM (# rpm -e gaim), and reinstalled gaim (# rpm -ivh gaim*.rpm). Viola, gaim with MSN support. Gaim didn't suck. I sucked. Hopefully I can save some other poor newbie the trouble of going grey (or completely bald) trying to troubleshoot gaim and msn. The gaim docs, while sparse and a little disconnected, are right for the most part. Check them first, then check your system, before giving up. |
well there have been many issues with gaim and msn over the last year mainly due to M$'s continual protocol changes, and currently they're using this whole authentication thing, which is - as you've found - already uneffective. there's a good deal of info about adding full nss and nspr support at their homepage, http://gaim.sf.net, including....
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