Alternative to GAIM

[Chris Aitken]

Tom Legrady wrote:

> AMSN generates shell script errors and compile errors. I gave up
> attempting to install it. Maybe next version

Really? I downloaded version amsn-0_83.tar.gz from links starting at
www.freshmeat.net.

The trick someone poited out is to never right-click - just keep
left-clicking on the links,
it downloads, I made a dir named amsn, copied the tar.gz in there, ran tar
xzvf file.tar.gz,
then rpm -i file.rpm - then you'll see the executable.  My path is
/home/chris/amsn/msn/amsn
(unnecessarily long) to which I created a launcher. I ran it, a message came
up asking me
to allow some encryption software installation - the encryption software
installation must
have been  automatic after that  because I left the house and when I returned
my daughter
was deleriouly chatting - or wharever it is you do on msn.

I only write all this because I am a rank newbie and figure if I can do this
anyone can.

Chris

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