MSNP14 support in Pidgin isn’t ready yet but it’s already been added to the source code. MSNP14 gives you the possibility to set status messages, enable song reporting and send offline messages. Here’s how to enable it in Ubuntu. Remember, MSNP14 is still unsupported, use AT YOUR OWN RISK! (and don’t bug Pidgin developers about it)
Download and extract http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/pidgin-2.3.1.tar.bz2
Remove Pidgin and related packages:
sudo apt-get remove pidgin finch libpurple
Install development packages:
sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin
Open up a terminal and move into the pidgin-2.3.1 directory.
Open the file “configure” in a text editor and replace the line “enable_msnp14=no” with “enable_msnp14=yes”.
Save and quit.
./configuremake
sudo make install
Done! Run Pidgin by typing “pidgin” or launch it from the menu’s.
Why not do an apt-get source pidgin? That way you get the sources from Debian or Ubuntu, instead of having to download the tarball from sourceforge. Find the config file in debian/ and change the line with enable_msnp14. With debuild -us -uc you can build a .deb from it again (at least, I hope that works with the pidgin package), and install it with dpkg -i
[http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/20]
Have fun
BTW: thanks for the nice Tango icons
Michiel: Even better! Thanks for the tip.
Howdy Hylke, I’m dying to use MSNP14 with Pidgin, (been missing the status message capabilities), HOWEVER, I am running Windows XP. Could you tell me how I would go about doing this for WINDOWS?
Tell you what, I solved my own problem
Il share for the benefit of those ALSO looking for the Windows alternative.
Check out http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/
You can get the .dll plugin for Pidgin there