aMSN 0.94 is here

einstein1981 · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 7:46 pm Post subject:

you have two choices, download the tar from the web site, untar it and install it,
or add the entry

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einstein1981 · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:01 pm Post subject:

you guys know how to make the systray thing work with this new one...
I have the /usr/lib/amsn/plugins/traydoc/ folder , but only
a libtray.so file in there, and I have no idea on how to make it work

thanks
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casper2601 · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject:

I added the keyword just as you suggested, however even after that, i do an emerge search and i still only see version .93.

So i am going to download and untar it. Quick important question (i get confused alot on this)
Where am i suppose to untar it too.....When i untar something..is it automatically extracted into a specific folder or do i have to point to a location to install it to?

For example i emerge Doom3 and I can not find the directory inwhich it was installed to because when i type doom3-demo nothing happens so i am assuming i have to find an installler.

Thanks for your help guys.

casper
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einstein1981 · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:09 am Post subject:

when you emerge, they are usually in the
/usr/portage/distfiles/
directory

if you manually untar it, I think you can specify where you want it

if you type doom3-demo and there is nothing happening
then you probably have to link the file in order to be able to run it from anywhere

expample would be

in /usr/bin
ln -s /usr/portage/distfiles/doom3/doom3-demo doom3

this way if in /usr/portage/distfiles/ the folder containing doom3 is actually doom3, and inside it, you have ./doom3 -demo.. you have now linked it to
doom3 on bin...
so from anywhere now, you could just type doom3
and it would launch ./doom3

hope I' m not confusing you
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TazG · Guru Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 320 Location: Canada

I can only run .094 as root!

einstein1981 · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject:

as root change the execute permissions for your users.
something like
chmod 770 amsn
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prosario_2000 · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:57 pm Post subject:

It didn't work in my case.

TazG · Guru Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 320 Location: Canada

einstein1981 · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:44 pm Post subject:

so, it does execute as non-root user? because if it wouldn't you'd get a permission denied or something like that...
You say that you can type amsn, and something happens but you don;t have amsn..
what you can do is this
open a virtual console, ( xterm) then:
type amsn (as non-root user).
see what happens, if you regain control of the terminal without having to ctrl c then the program ended, and you should either check the configs, reemerge, or submit a bug... if you don;t then the problem is executing it...

if all works, then you could do
amsn &
for it to run in backgroung of the console...
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TazG · Guru Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 320 Location: Canada

Well that's what I did, and I have to use Ctrl+C to get the prompt back. There are no messages at all. Version 0.93 worked though.

einstein1981 · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:37 am Post subject:

you might have to position it first...
try it in xorg...

TazG · Guru Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 320 Location: Canada

I found the problem.
I backed up ~/.amsn and deleted everything in it, and aMSN runs now. I put all the files back from the backup one by one until it stopped working. The file it doesn't like is the "profiles" file. So I tried to recreate my profile from inside the program, and it froze... and wouldn't start again until i deleted the profiles file. This was the problem (root would have a blank profile file).
I would like to use my profile though. Is anyone successfully using profiles with aMSN?

Oh and there's another problem... the traydock (in KDE) is just an empty white shape now instead of an actual picture. It happens with version 0.93 too and I think it started when I switched to Xorg but it could be something else too...

prosario_2000 · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject:

Thank you Taz... you solved my problem

einstein1981 · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject:

well that's strange... I Think it might be a problem with the other version.
this is you might want to do
emerge -C amsn
try to remove all info on it
then delete the file in the distfiles folder, then reemerge...
if this happens again then you can always use the tar file from the ams web site.. works well and it;s really easy to use...
the only thing you will have to do is find the instal folder where ./amsn is, and
then symlink it to /bin directory to have access to it by just typing amsn from anywhere...

hope I make myself clear...

good luck
BTW profiles work fine for me , and I have the masked package, although it's the first time I use it
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TazG · Guru Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 320 Location: Canada

Still doesn't work!
After deleting everything and even using the one from the aMSN homepage, the same thing happens.

Farkenell · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 88

I'm having a similar problem as well....

I can't create a profile with out it locking up, also when running normall without a profile it seems to cause the computer to act choppy, at times....

I've tried re-emerging it etc....

USE="-kde -qt doc dvd sse"

rojanu · Guru Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 361 Location: London

I got V.94 and I cannot transfer files a window pop-ups with a "Transferring ........." message but without actually anything happening, I just check the amsn site and someone else already asked for support but there is no reply for more than a month.

Any ideas....

einstein1981 · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:55 am Post subject:

you might have a firewall closing the port necesary to transfer files, on the pop up window the port number is specified, i havn't checked but i'm sure in the preferences there is a port number...

just a thought
hope this helps

btw: no problems transfering files with amsn , gaim, lots... amsn none worked out of the box
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