Myspace IM

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Many people are interested in using the MySpace protocol, but the MySpace IM does not work on linux. Fortunately there is a program, Pidgin, which will work with MySpace. The only trouble is that the version in Dapper (called gaim) does not have that capability, nor is there a backport for it, at least for the version required. It can, however, be downloaded and installed from source.

  • Download the source
  • open a terminal 
cd Desktop
tar -xvjf pidgin<TAB><ENTER>
cd pidgin<TAB><ENTER>
sudo apt-get remove gaim
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libxml-parser-perl
./configure
make
sudo make install

It works, at least for me. Your mileage may vary.


For Debian Etch, there is a backport. See http://backports.org

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