Pidgin

[Tyler Aviss]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:37 AM, G. Matthew Rice <matt-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 16:14 -0500, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
>> What protocol are you trying to connect to?
>
> My guess is MSN.  I had to go to pidgin's home for the latest version.
> I'm on ubuntu 8.04 on my desktop and they didn't seem to consider xthe
> MSN protocol change worthy of an update.
>
> HTH,
> --matt
>
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>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Devon Aitken <devonrose-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > My siblings used to use gaim with Linux. I'm a new Linux user and when I
>> > installed with sudo apt-get install gaim it came up as Pidgin. When I tried
>> > to use it it said that the server does not support our protocol. Is there
>> > anyway around this?
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They've had an option for QQ (Chinese ICQ-type program which is *very*
popular overseas) for a long tmie, but I don't think I've gotten it to
work in the last 1-2 years as it uses outdated protocols. I'm not sure
why they don't just remove the older stuff that doesn't work - at
least until it's fixed - but in the meantime I suppose the option is
to use aMSN or possibly "kopete" for MSN, and maybe Eva for QQ, etc.
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