DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: msn for linux
Read the Damn Small Apt Walkthrough, Using Apt with Damn Small Linux. If you still don't understand how to fix the problem after you've read that, post more questions to this thread and I'll see if I can help you.
The other thing to do would be to go to www.flonix.com/plugins and download the amsn script - it's a download-every-time script, but it'll get you aMSN. Then again, I've not tried it since I use Gaim, but it's worth a shot.
original here.