Msn messenger client

Forum: Apps
Topic: Msn messenger client
started by: trice

Posted by trice on Mar. 13 2004,21:02

I have two parts to this question. please do not think i'm an idiot. well i am in terms of not using windows =P . i would like to play with DSL but i would also like to be running a msn messenger client to talk to my friends at the same time, could someone name me a client icould use please? and second how would i go about using this client, would i burn it to the same boot disk as DSL? or if it were less than 1.44 mb could i put it on a Floppy disk and then load it from there? or what? thanks

Posted by l0st on Mar. 14 2004,03:35

Your best (and easiest) bet is to remaster it, or add a script and download it like firebird.
Here's a few:
Gaim (bit on the bloat side) gaim.sourceforge.net
gtmess (console) < http://www.geocities.com/montajoe/gtmess/ >
amsn (not bad...) < http://amsn.sourceforge.net/ >

PS: Msn changes its protocol version frequently. Older versions WILL not work

Posted by PhrozenFear on Mar. 14 2004,06:37

Now, a question on that - how would one go about adding a script like that to the menu ?

Posted by Arioch on Mar. 14 2004,16:29

trice,

From one newbie to another this is what I've found to work best. Check out the DSL Ideas and Suggestions section. Look for the thread "Install Script for Synaptic". Once you get Synaptic to work you can install Gaim or an other MSN Client on the fly.

Posted by TyphoonMentat on Mar. 14 2004,17:25

Gtmess looks interesting though, and it's only about 300Kb when all the documentation and extraneous files are removed.

Posted by libretto on Mar. 15 2004,23:29

I did try Gaim as someone suggested, but the versoin I got didn't seem to support MSN. I presume I need to change the scripts to look on the latest development builds? Also tried AMSN (works nciely on my main machine), but I think it needs GTK or something so wouldn't work under DSL.???

Posted by TyphoonMentat on Mar. 16 2004,18:25

aMSN needs Tcl and Tk, which DSL doesn't have anyway. Gaim needs the MSN module to work, you need to compile it with something like --with-msn.
From what I've seen, MSNre and gtmess are the only possible MSN Messenger clients for DSL.

Posted by kudzu on Mar. 16 2004,19:43

i got my amsn working with apt-get

Code Sample

apt-get install amsn

Posted by davide on Mar. 16 2004,20:51

You should try another version of gaim...
it is sure that it supports msn, as far as I know. i've read that in several articles in linux magazines..
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