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 |
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What works
natively, nothing. if you install the winetricks that will find in the post below, plus ie6, the installer will run. PS: i had to install the 3D drivers for it to render anything.
What does not
as you can read in the "What Works" section, the application doesn't run. So everything else naturally will not work. This is due to a conflict between MSVCR80 and UCCAPI.DLL (see bug #18889 for the blocker) : http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18889
Workarounds
What was not tested
I tested everything i could. The app doesn't run, so this obviusly prevented me to test the rest of the program. Anyway, in the bug link i gave you above, you will find very usefull logs.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
actctx: parse_depend_manifests could not find dependent assembly L"UCCAPI" (2.0.0.0) MSVCR80.dll failed to initialize Again, see #18889 for details.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 26 2011 | 1.3.33 | No, but has workaround | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 04 2011 | 1.3.17 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 31 2011 | 1.3.16 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 15 2011 | 1.3.15 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 07 2011 | 1.3.13 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
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by Dan Kegel on Saturday August 22nd 2009, 17:37
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!"
by Amal Kansagra on Monday September 14th 2009, 10:50
i can confirm this works with wlm2008 but not with wlm2009
by John Fante on Saturday October 10th 2009, 10:18
by unimatrix on Saturday October 10th 2009, 11:10
by John Fante on Sunday October 11th 2009, 4:48
I am running Ubuntu 9.04 64.
by unimatrix on Wednesday December 30th 2009, 16:21
You should have posted it here:
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8146
by GeovaniCg on Thursday February 25th 2010, 16:55