Thread: Internet Messengers on the N9/N950! (Supports: MSN/ ICQ/ Yahoo/ AIM/ IRC/ Facebook/ Gadu-Gadu/ QQ)
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billranton is offline billranton
2011-11-18 , 14:46
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#33
So I got MSN working, using the telepathy method hinted at by abustany in the big contacts thread.

First make sure you have developer mode on and the harmattan dev repository enabled. For the dev repo, create a file called 'dev.list' in /etc/apt/sources.list.d which should contain this line:

Code:
deb http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/ harmattan/sdk free non-free
There are dependencies to install as root (tell me if I missed one):

Code:
apt-get install python-gobject python-openssl python-gst0.10 python-farsight python-crypto python-dbus
You need three packages that aren't currently in the dev repo, though all their dependencies. Because python is architecture independent, the latest packages for each can be taken from debian wheezy:
The link you're looking for is 'select mirror'. Download each and install, in the right order:

Code:
dpkg -i python-papyon_0.5.6-1_all.deb
dpkg -i python-telepathy_0.15.19-2.1_all.deb
dpkg -i telepathy-butterfly_0.5.15-2.1_all.deb
After that you can set up the MSN account in a similar way to a standard jabber one:

Code:
mc-tool add butterfly/msn MSN string:account=<email> string:password=<passwd>
It will then list the account uid. This will look something like 'butterfly/msn/myemail_40hotmail_2ecom' which you need to put into

Code:
mc-tool enable <account>
Then it should add your MSN account to the 'Availability' applet, though it will have an empty title. Try 'All Online' and see if it signs in. Your MSN contacts will be added to your address book, though as with the jabber accounts, the msn contacts look empty because there's no service associated with them until someone writes one. This thread helps a bit, but you still need to use mc-tool.
Last edited by billranton; 2011-12-01 at 20:49.
 

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