How to Use MSNP14 IN Pidgin

In Linux, Pidgin is an all-in-one IM solution for many people, including many IM protocols.

However, it is widely used. Many Protocol versions use the old version, so that these IM cannot get the latest experience. MSN is one of them. Till now, Pidgin is still using the MSNP9 Protocol of MSN. As you complained, Pidgin cannot receive offline messages, view signatures, and so on...

This article shows you how to use MSNP14 in Pidgin.

In fact, Felipe Contreras, the main contributor to MSN Protocol IN Pidgin, put his recent development work on MSN Protocol IN Pidgin to google code. He complained that after four years of work on the pidgin protocol, he still had no commit permission and could not put some of his latest work in Pidgin. So he decided to release it separately. Therefore, Pidgin supports the new MSNP14 protocol compared with MSN.

Currently, msn-pecan (0.0.14) supports the following features:

• Support for personal messages
• Server-side storage for display names (private alias)
• Partial direct connection support (p2p transfers)
• Improved network IO (using GIOChannel)
• Improved error handling
• Network issues tested with netem
• GObject usage

The method is relatively simple. Ubuntu is used as an example.

1. When Pidgin is installed on the system, edit your/etc/apt/sources. list. If you are Ubuntu 8.04 hard Heron, add the following two lines:

Deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/msn-pecan/ubuntu hard main Deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/msn-pecan/ubuntu hard main

If you are using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, add:

Deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/msn-pecan/ubuntu gutsy main Deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/msn-pecan/ubuntu gutsy main

After the installation is complete, run the following command on the terminal to install

Sudo apt-get update Sudo apt-get install pidgin-msn-pecan

2. Install the package and open Pidgin. In Protocol, a Protocol named WLM will be added, and the Account's Protocol will be changed from MSN to WLM. log on and check out, is there a signature?

PS1: Currently, this version does not support offline message. It is said that the next version will support this feature.
PS2: Windows/Gentoo or compile the installation method can be seen: http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/wiki/HowToInstall

Refer:
Http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/wiki/FAQ
Http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/
Http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/wiki/HowToInstall
For details about what msnp is, refer:
Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Notification_Protocol

Finally, I would like to thank the wuzhaojun of szlug for providing this method, and the Chinese network of Linux desktop-how to use the MSNP14 article in Pidgin.

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