On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:01 AM, David Gerard <dgerard@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- -Austin
