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Install

Most likely you need Pidgin first :) Get it here.

After you have installed it check HowToUse.

Windows

Just execute the installer, which you can find here.

Ubuntu

Use the Ubuntu Software Center and search for msn-pecan, or type in a terminal: sudo apt-get install msn-pecan

Fedora

Go to Administration->Add/Remove Software, and search for purple-msn-pecan, or type in a terminal: sudo yum install purple-msn-pecan

Debian

Typing in a terminal: sudo apt-get install msn-pecan

Arch Linux

You need to compile it from AUR, here is the package.

Nokia N900

Go to the Maemo downloads page.

Gentoo

emerge msn-pecan

Pidgin Portable

You'll be asked for a location, go where Pidgin Portable is installed, and then into plugins subdir.

Adium (Mac OS X)

http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/wiki/AdiumBuilds

FreeBSD

cd /usr/ports/net-im/pidgin-msn-pecan && make install clean

Compile

Make sure you have the development files for libpurple (libpurple-devel in RPM based distros, libpurple-dev in Debian ones).

Then, simply download/extract the tarball and issue:

make sudo make install

And for translations: sudo make install_locales