Showing posts with label recompile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recompile. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Fix the ugly fonts in AMSN 0.97.2

So, as of yesterday, older versions of AMSN won't log you in MSN Chat. You have to install the latest release 0.97.2. But, if you do so, you will encounter the known ugliness of Tcl/Tk, the language AMSN was built on. Crappy fonts will make your life miserable and your aesthetics will be severely damaged.

Here comes the solution: Recompile from (source) scratch AMSN along with other libs and stuff.
To do so, I've barely changed an existing script for the previous version of the program.

Download from here.

Uninstall existing amsn installation, typing
sudo apt-get purge amsn

Run the script
sudo bash fixamsn0.97.2.sh

(you have to move to the appropriate directory first -- eg. cd ~/Desktop)

Keep waiting until you regain control of your terminal. It will take enough time to get yourself some iced coffee.

A word of caution: I used the exact script myself, but you're running it at your own risk ;)