MSN messenger type deal for LINUX

[spetniz]

ive been trying to install EveryBuddy and LMME so that i can use MSN messenger, but i am having problems wiht installation. i keeps ejecting the CD and asking for a CDROM, or it has problems with sh. is there a good messenger engine for linux that interprets MSN? Thanks. Oh one more thing, isnt "make" supposed to be a command? (im using mandrake) at the terminal window, "make" does not seem to be recognized
THANKS

[scanez]

Which distro are you using? Chances are there is already a binary file you can install instead of having to compile.

[mdwatts]

Missing make? You probably didn't install the development packages. There are lots of other posts on this very same problem about the infamous 'missing make'.

[z0mbix]

Also, if you have no luck with everybuddy like many people, try gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net). But again, I believe there are rpms for the latest version (0.54) on their site. The Everybuddy site doesn't seem to have been updated recently and they haven't released a stable version for a while so I switched to gaim which is much more stable and supports more protocols/features.

[TheCatMan]

You could try imici (http://www.imici.com), that comes precompiled and provides a link to MSN. I find it's not very stable :( but it's small and does the job.