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I can't find aMSN in the Scientific Linux 6 repositories.. How can I install it?

LanceBaynes
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  • Let me ask if you want to be more flexible with your question... what about installing another MSN client such as Pidgin or Kmess? I think that it could work for you but nobody can answer that to your question, since it is about aMSN and not any MSN client. – D4RIO Jan 13 '12 at 20:12
  • [root@a ~]# yum search kmess Warning: No matches found for: kmess No Matches found [root@a ~]# AND http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13298 – LanceBaynes Jan 13 '12 at 20:17
  • I cannot understand why the pidgin ticket link, but anyway, have you tried with http://www.amsn-project.net/linux-downloads.php? If not, try downloading the Fedora package (it's RPM) or the source code. – D4RIO Jan 13 '12 at 20:24
  • p.s.: I get this message when I try to add a buddy on MSN with pidgin...: http://i.imgur.com/qXy0K.png – LanceBaynes Jan 13 '12 at 21:39
  • so pidgin has a bug.. – LanceBaynes Jan 13 '12 at 21:39
  • @LanceBaynes If you have decided to install Pidgin and experience problems with Pidgin, please do not post them here. This question page should only be concerned with your original problem. –  Jan 13 '12 at 22:04
  • How to install aMSN on Scientific Linux? – LanceBaynes Jan 13 '12 at 22:14

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I just googled for "amsn el6 rpm" and got tons of hits. So you can download an already built rpm and install it.

el6 is short for RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 - which is the "orignal" OS for the binary compatible clones (CentOS 6, Scientific Linux 6).

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Well if there's no packaged binary for your distro you can try building the package from source. Get the gzipped tarball and extract it somewhere you do your build-related stuff, and follow the standard procedure:

$ cd ~/build
$ tar xzf amsn-0.98.4-src.tar.gz
$ cd amsn-0.98.4

Here you make sure to read all important files, such as README, INSTALL and HELP before continuing. Then you compile and install:

$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

Note: on SL 6.1 64bit you will need this before the install:

# yum install gcc-c++ tcl-devel tk-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel gstreamer-devel farsight2-devel -y