msn not connecting to gaim

[darkwing_duck135]

I'm having problems with gaim and connecting to msn. I have RH9 and gaim1.5.0.
I had to get the libmsn plugin to even have the option of msn (though the way i've heard, it's no big news with the new version). When I try to connect it says "... was unable to sign on:Protocol not supported". Anyone have any idea what's wrong and what I might be able to do to get it to work with msn?

One other question while I'm at it that has to do with gaim. when I say something on there, the letters tend to be more spaced out than usual, I think enough to fit about one or two more letters in each space... any ideas on why that may be, and possibly how to fix it, if it can be fixed?

Thanks for the help!

[Oxygen]

Can I ask, how did you get gaim? Through an RPM or pre-installed or did you compile it yourself?

[darkwing_duck135]

Um... as far as I can remember, I went on to the official game page, looked for the RH9 version, and clicked on the link on the top of the RH9 list. I'm not too sure what the other links below it were for, but I suppose that could be part of the problem. It also wasn't a tar file cause I didn't have to type any commands to get it to install, I just installed it like you do in MS Windows (I just looked, it's an rpm file).

Hope that helps, if not, let me know.

[devils casper]

try aMSN !




casper

[darkwing_duck135]

try aMSN !




casper

Well... I would try that, but I'd like some sort of chat box that allows me to use more than one type of messneger, in the box, like trillion or gaim does.

[devils casper]

did you try kopete? its in KDE.






casper

[darkwing_duck135]

did you try kopete? its in KDE.






casper

I did search for kopete, and it didn't find anything... I think I did a search under all the files cause when I went to the "find files" I choose for it to search under "file:/". So yeah, when I did a search for kopete it didin't find anything. Does Kopete come with one of the installation packages they ask you if you want right after you install, are does it come with the main installation?

[devils casper]

kopete comes with Main Installation. in terminal/konsole, type 'kopete'.






casper

[darkwing_duck135]

Ok... well, I dowloaded kopete, the on the tar file. I opened up the folder, and it had the readme file and the install file. I looked some at the readme file, and mainly at the install file. The first thing it tells me to do is use the "./configure" command, I try it and it says "command not found". Any idea of what the problem could be?

Darkwing_Duck

[devils casper]

in terminal, navigate to the folder where you saved kopete. execute ./configure from there.
best way is, download this kopete rpm file and install it

rpm -ivh <package.rpm>

casper