Ubuntu – Empathy cannot connect to MSN account

There is an extensive PPA here - which is very similar to the lucid bleeding edge ppa (and with the same author) - will uplift maverick to the latest versions of various applications including v1.1.10 of VLC.

However, I would use this PPA with care since it will uplift approx. 69 packages.

I would add the PPA, followed by

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc

This should upgrade vlc to the latest version.

Then I would untick the PPA from software sources and re-run

sudo apt-get update

This will stop any further packages from the PPA being installed.

Note - I cannot vouch for the stability/safety or otherwise of any packages from this PPA. As for the majority of PPA's - use at your own risk.

Without uninstalling anything, you can fix this by changing a line in the file /usr/share/pyshared/papyon/service/description/AB/__init__.py.

Edit it as root by running:

sudo -H gedit /usr/share/pyshared/papyon/service/description/AB/__init__.py

Change line 23 from this:

url = "http://contacts.msn.com/abservice/abservice.asmx"

To this:

url = "https://local-bay.contacts.msn.com/abservice/abservice.asmx"

Or to this:

url = "https://local-sn.contacts.msn.com/abservice/abservice.asmx"

Reboot and test it, it's working for me!