adapted from of this site.
In this post we are trying to install mercury messenger. Mercury is a MSN compatible messenging client which is in my opinion one of the best ones. It is written in java and thus runs on most computers.
In this copy’n'paste we will use the repository made by Trevino who has quite a few useful things.
Here is what you have to copy and paste in a terminal window:
sudo apt-get install sun-java5-bin
sudo update-alternatives --config java
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Paste this in the window that pop’s up:
# Treviño's Ubuntu edgy Repository (GPG key: 81836EBF - DD800CD9)
# Further informations: http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb edgy 3v1n0
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb edgy 3v1n0
Close that window after saving and in the terminal paste:
wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/DD800CD9.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mercury-messenger
If you are using beyril or compiz you might wanna disable them if Mercury does not want to be friendly with them.
noebenjamin | 15-Sep-09 at 11:43 am | Permalink
And from where i can open mercury after installation? i didn’t find the application
morgan | 16-Sep-09 at 12:16 pm | Permalink
I posted this a long time ago, I have since moved on to Adium, but I guess if you cannot find the link in the applications menu, you may try to type either “mercury” or “mercury-messenger” at a terminal prompt or by bringing up the “run” command with ALT+F2
Hope that helps