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Windows Live Messenger - discontinued

This is a new version featuring Multiple computer connexion on the same account at the same time
and some new functions

Application Details:

Version: 9.0 (Windows Live Messenger)
License: Retail
URL: http://messenger.msn.com
Votes: 42
Latest Rating: Garbage
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.3.33

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Test Results

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Selected Test Results

What works

nothing

What does not

cannot be installed. wine does not start

Workarounds

What was not tested

not installable

Hardware tested

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Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowUbuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 26 20111.3.33No, but has workaround No NoGarbagean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 10.10 "Maverick" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Apr 04 20111.3.17Yes No NoGarbagean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 10.10 "Maverick" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Mar 31 20111.3.16Yes No NoGarbagean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 10.10 "Maverick" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Mar 15 20111.3.15Yes No NoGarbagean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 10.10 "Maverick" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Feb 07 20111.3.13Yes No NoGarbagean anonymous user 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
4781 MSN Silently cannot connect to network CLOSED ABANDONED View
8555 No large display pictures in MSN Messenger 7.0 CLOSED FIXED View
14287 Windows Live Installer does not start CLOSED FIXED View
15533 iTunes 8.0 fails to install CLOSED FIXED View
17536 DirectX 9 launcher causes Atari Scrabble Online installation to fail CLOSED FIXED View
18667 Installing WLM 2009 from msi produces errors CLOSED INVALID View
18889 Multiple isolation-aware applications fail to load (MSN Messenger Live 2009, Lync 2010, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Quicken 201X)(embedded PE manifest search should support ISOLATIONAWARE_MANIFEST_RESOURCE_ID) CLOSED FIXED View
19004 Windows Live Messenger 8.5 and 2009 installer fail to start CLOSED ABANDONED View
19352 Windows Live Messenger 2009 installer doesn't start CLOSED FIXED View
26023 Live Messenger 2009 crashes on start, needs msvcr80.dll._mbslwr_s CLOSED FIXED View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO
To install Windows Live Messenger you need to use Winetricks to install ie6 and msxml3.

Comments

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success story
by Dan Kegel on Saturday August 22nd 2009, 17:37
allforlinux.com/2009/08/msn-in-linux/
says
" you can easily run windows live messenger 2008 and 2009 in linux! all you need is wine and winetricks. It’s really easy to do. Everyone told me I couldn’t install WL msn in linux, BUT I CAN AND ANYONE CAN DO IT! So let’’s start.


First of all, wine. In case you don’t have it installed, you can do it with synaptic, add/remove apps, or: sudo apt-get install wine.

That will let you run many other windows’ apps. But not WL msn. Now let’s install winetricks. All you gotta do is right click here and press: “save destiny as”. Save it to your home folder.

Once downloaded, you can run the program by:

sh winetricks

Install all you want and can, but what we need for now is:

corefonts
flash
gecko
gdiplus
msls31
msxml3
riched20
riched30
tahoma
vcrun6
vcrun2003
vcrun2005
vcrun2005 sp1
vcrun2008
That’s it.

You will need to get the installer from a Windows XP machine or download it from the Internet, dont try to install the online installer wlsetup-custom.exe this installer won’t currently work with Wine. What you need is the “Install_{508CE775-4BA4-4748-82DF-FE28DA9F03B0}.msi” from: Program files/Common Files/WindowsLiveInstaller/MsiSources and “Install_{508CE775-4BA4-4748-82DF-FE28DA9F03B0}.msi” should be there if you have Messenger 2008 or 2009 installed on the XP machine. You can also do what I did and google for the offline installer and download it from a host. Just be aware that the installer for 2008 and 2009 are named the same,version 8.5 is version 2008 btw.

OK, once you have the installer install it like this:

$ msiexec /i Install_{508CE775-4BA4-4748-82DF-FE28DA9F03B0}.msi

the install will run in your terminal, once the install has completed run winecfg and select “Add application” then go to “.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Windows Live/Messenger” and select “msnmsgr.exe” then set the windows version for “msnmsgr.exe” to win2000 then click OK.

Now run $ wineboot and if you followed all the tutorial Mesenger should start up and then all you need to do is sign in.

This howto is good for versions 2008 and 2009, all the steps are the exact same and both versions work about the same. Enjoy!"
RE: success story
by Amal Kansagra on Monday September 14th 2009, 10:50
using wine 1.0.1
i can confirm this works with wlm2008 but not with wlm2009
RE: success story
by John Fante on Saturday October 10th 2009, 10:18
I can also confirm that this works :-)
RE: success story
by unimatrix on Saturday October 10th 2009, 11:10
2009 or 2008?
RE: success story
by John Fante on Sunday October 11th 2009, 4:48
It is version 2008 (build 8.5.1302.1018). I googled the .msi that is mentioned in the guide and that was what i found.

I am running Ubuntu 9.04 64.
RE: success story
by unimatrix on Wednesday December 30th 2009, 16:21
You've posted this under the wrong article version.

You should have posted it here:
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8146
RE: success story
by GeovaniCg on Thursday February 25th 2010, 16:55
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