Messenger

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Messenger
started by: trice

Posted by trice on Mar. 23 2004,18:57

I know most people would probably argue with me on this but i use msn messenger above all the other messengers i use, it would be usefull if there were to be a msn messenger client on the DSL distro,

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 24 2004,01:35

Assuming that there is no decent MSN application that can fit on the CD, this sounds like a good candidate for an install script.

Any takers?

Posted by trice on Mar. 24 2004,01:43

Hey seeing as you are talking about install script and stuff, is there any where that i can begin looking on that type of thing?

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 24 2004,01:52

Two places:

Try installing an MSN client using apt get or Synaptic package tool.

Try writing an install script to download and install a *.tar.gz or *.tgz binary tarball as found in Slackware or other Slackware-based Linux distributions like Vector Linux.

Good Luck.

Posted by TyphoonMentat on Mar. 24 2004,20:49

Actually, I think gtmess would be very suitable for DSL - small, and no annoying dependencies.
Still, a script to download Tcl/Tk and aMSN would be nice, maybe I'll write one.

Posted by trice on Mar. 25 2004,16:58

Hey could you help me begin to do the script type things?
if its ok that is could you add me to messenger if you have msn its tr1ce56@msn.com
if you have AIM its matmatah5656

Thanks