oh wow i’m dumb
Excuse me the necroposting, but I wondered if Messenger Plus Live can work on Wine as well… I had no luck tho
the MSN Plus does not work on Linux unfortunately.
there has to be a way to make it work… I am sure there is. Just, we need to understand how MsgPlus works… Has anyone any documentation about that?
I could not solve that. I think hemoo could because he has said that
I am using Ubuntu MATE 20.04, and i still cant login, i cant type anything into the boxes and i have everything installed that i need, tahoma is installed, and it seems that corefonts wont install
Good news!
Today I found a solution for empty text boxes and 80048821.
The main problem is the newest Wine (yet). On latest wine version (~5.0) always got that error message, but I downgraded to 4.0 and now I could log in to WLM.
So what to do?
Simply download wine 4.0 deb file/use downgrader software on Ubuntu and install it.
On Arch just simply run downgrade wine command and select 4.0’s number.
Why do I have empty text boxes in login screen?
Probably you forgot install winetricks packages. Run this command in terminal:
winetricks corefonts gdiplus msls31 msxml3 riched20 riched30 tahoma flash
If you have any problems yet, just go ahead and I’ll try help you.
@GrumpyCat
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Good work, Balazs_V! I’ll try it soon.
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Everything is installed, and im using wine 4.0, i had to install wine and msn using playonlinux though. not sure if that is part of the problem, but i still get small login boxes that dont work
Use native wine instead of playonlinux.
can you just report this in the bug tracker
What?
Wait, where i can download the Wine 4.0 deb files? 
That’s for 18.04 64-bit apparently. So i just replace 18.04 to 16.04, amd64 to i386 (to match my OS) and wish me luck doing this 
Yay, I found a better solution
sudo apt install wine-stable-i386=4.0~xenial 
Downloading http://download.microsoft.com/download/office97pro/fonts/1/w95/en-us/tahoma32.exe failed
Crap 
https://web.archive.org/web/20060820065426/http://download.microsoft.com/download/office97pro/fonts/1/w95/en-us/tahoma32.exe
Using Wayback Machine and it works
WHY I HAVE TO DOWNLOAD 2 VERSIONS OF FLASH PLAYER!? (14.0.0.176 AND 14.0.0.179) HOLY okay
flash install completed, but installed file /home/twimusic/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32/Macromed/Flash/FlashUtil32_14_0_0_179_Plugin.exe not found
It’s done, but when terminal says that, i find the file and i found it (Uninstall Utility it seems)
But I tried WLM 8.5, and still doesn’t work
Did you install winetrick package?
I do that with winetricks.
Then just skip the Flash player one.
winetricks corefonts gdiplus msls31 msxml3 riched20 riched30 tahoma
Executing w_do_call corefonts corefonts already installed, skipping Executing w_do_call gdiplus gdiplus already installed, skipping Executing w_do_call msls31 msls31 already installed, skipping Executing w_do_call msxml3 msxml3 already installed, skipping Executing w_do_call riched20 riched20 already installed, skipping Executing w_do_call riched30 riched30 already installed, skipping Executing w_do_call tahoma tahoma already installed, skipping
Considering I did all of them, and still doesn’t work. 
Interesting, I try older version of MSN (5.0) and I got this:
RAS support is not implemented! Configure program to use LAN connection/winsock instead!
It thinks I’m using modem?