Originally Posted by billranton

So I got MSN working, using the telepathy method hinted at by abustany in the big contacts thread.

I got:

• papyon - I ended up getting the git trunk, but I think the last release (0.5.6) would work
• telepathy-butterfly - The last tarred release had a bug, so I ended up on the trunk here too
• telepathy-python - The version in the dev repository is too old for butterfly, it requires at least 0.15.17. I used 19.

There are dependencies to install as root (tell me if I missed one):

Code:

apt-get install make python-gobject python-openssl python-gst0.10 python-farsight python-crypto xsltproc

then download the packages above and install them. You'll find instructions in the README files in each one. 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 name, 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. You can use them through peregrine or the messaging application though.