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14 October 2009
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aMSN is a free Windows Live Messenger clone. aMSN attempts to emulate the look and feel of Windows Live Messenger, and supports many of its features.
aMSN has features not present in Windows Live Messenger. Users can set alarms, are able to see others who have removed them from their contact list, and are able to open many profiles at once. It is also very customizable, with extensions and themes available at the main site.
aMSN is available for any system that supports Tcl/Tk 8.4 or higher. This includes Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and any UNIX variant including Linux.
if you are under debian or ubuntu you need sone packges, downlaod them with
#aptitude install tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng-dev gcc
download the source from http://www.amsn-project.net/download.php
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/amsn/amsn-0.97.2.tar.bz2
extact the files with
tar -xjvf amsn-0.97.2.tar.bz2
cd amsn-0.97.2.tar.bz2
./configure
make
make install
if you are under Fedora/centos or Fedora based distro
before make and make install
#yum install tcl tk tcltls imlib tcl-devel tk-devel imlib-devel libjpeg
#cd amsn..
#./configure
#make
#make install
Now start your amsn with
./amsn
or add the icon manually to applications>insternet
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