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MSN Messenger on WINE

Troublesome · 2007-10-06 13:26:24

I was wondering if any of you knew which version of MSN will run on WINE? I have tried 7.0, 6.2 and 6.0 but they are to old to log in, and I believe 7.5 is XP only. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks.

06-10-2007 1:26pm

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Troublesome

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I was wondering if any of you knew which version of MSN will run on WINE? I have tried 7.0, 6.2 and 6.0 but they are to old to log in, and I believe 7.5 is XP only. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks.

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#2 06-10-2007 1:32pm

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is there a reason you have to use msn messenger? I find pidgin just as handy now.

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#3 06-10-2007 1:51pm

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I'm using Pidgin atm, I don't like it that much. aMSN crashes with my contact list, and I can never set up permissions right for Mercury. Isn't Kopete KDE only? I'll install KDE if I have to, I can't stand pidgin.

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#4 06-10-2007 5:27pm

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GAIM/Pidgin became very buggy around the time of the name change IMHO. I don't think MSN on WINE will be a roaring success - for some reason I think it needs the .net framework - no idea if that works in WINE.

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#5 07-10-2007 2:21pm

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I've used KDE, I used to prefer it to GNOME, but my opinion has changed now. I'm using Fedora 7 btw.

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#6 07-10-2007 2:25pm

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I think you should be able to run most KDE apps in Gnome once you have the base KDE libraries installed.

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