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From aMSN's FAQ:

"aMSN is a Microsoft Messenger clone. It allows you to keep in touch with your friends and exchange instant messages and files. "

Installing

To install amsn with pacman:

# pacman -S amsn

Troubleshooting

Getting audio conferencing working

For audio exchange with a contact, use a svn version of aMSN and enable farsight2 support. The process is well described on aMSN's wiki.

However for Arch 64bit recompiling libnice might be a requisite because of a problem with gcc optimizations on libnice's cryptographic code. See this bug report for more information.

Simply put, build the libnice package using makepkg to solve the issue. Just download the existing PKGBUILD from the AUR and add the line:

export CFLAGS=""

before the configure line. Then run makepkg to create the package and install it with:

# pacman -U libnice-x.y.z-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
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