[Wine] MSN Messenger in Wine?

[Austin English]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:01 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's marked "garbage" in the appdb, because the installer doesn't run
> without quite a bit of tweaking. But anyway ...
>
> I want to get MSN working in Wine. It's for my girlfriend's daughter,
> whose XP box just got trashed by a virus/rootkit (spread via MSN, of
> course). So we've saved her stuff and we're nuking and paving the box.
> I would like to use Ubuntu instead of Windows, but she flatly insists
> Pidgin and Trillian are awful to use and she wants genuine MSN and
> nothing else.
>
> Using wlsetup-all.exe (the complete 134MB installer package), in a
> clean WINEPREFIX with wine-gecko 0.9.1, the installer doesn't run at
> all until I do "winetricks msxml3". Then it comes up with a dialog
> box:

IIRC, you'll also need native gdiplus and richedit. Knowing MSN, ie6
may also be needed.

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-Austin