Comment 6 for bug 513346

you can use the telepathy ppa in terminal type
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:telepathy/ppa;sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get
dist-upgrade

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:41 PM, LGB [Gábor Lénárt] <email address hidden> wrote:

> Is there an easy way to do it without messing up my karmic? I mean, I
> can compile empathy 2.29.6 for sure, if it compiles without too much
> dependency problems (I have karmic) and no other stuffs like telepathy
> and another 1000 packages needed to install and/or compile :) Or is it
> ok to test from a live cd for example using an alpha release of lucid?
>
> --
> MSN connection does not work: Network error
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513346
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> Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Unknown
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> Using MSN with empathy is almost impossible since most of the time it
> reports "Network error". Please note, that I have no problem with other IM
> clients using the same user. Also, there can't be major network problem: I
> am using 1Gbit LAN connection to the ISP's backbone network, also as I've
> mentioned, no problem with other clients. Also it's a bit misleading to show
> "edit contact" window, since user can't edit any setting which can solve
> this problem, I think :) It's up-to-date ubuntu karmic running on 32 bit x86
> platform.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Jan 27 17:32:02 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
> SourcePackage: empathy
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
>
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