Installing aMSN from source

Last update on December 11, 2008 07:54 AM by netty5
Published by netty5

Installing aMSN from source







After the change protocol connection made by Microsoft, it is impossible to connect with aMSM.

Solution


Install version 0.97.2 which is currently available sources.

Removing the old version


aptitude remove --purge amsn 

Download


https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amsn/0.97.2~debian-0ubuntu3

Unpacking


Unzip it (as root) in /usr/local (assuming that the downloaded file is in /home/your_login/Desktop

cd/usr/local 
tar xvzf/home/netty/Desktop/amsn_0.97.2 ~ debian.orig


==Installing dependencies==

aptitude install tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng-dev


==Installing amsn==

cd amsn_0.97.2~debian
./configure
make
make install


Note
By default, the installation of Debian does not include the gcc pack; to install it type:

aptitude install gcc
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