Is Pidgin (MSN) broken?

[Lars Stokholm]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Lars Stokholm <lars.stokholm at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...or is it just me, getting "SSL support is needed for MSN. Please
>  install a supported SSL library"? It happened after an update of
>  gnutls (feb. 28). I don't know if this is a coincidence.
>
>  I've tried reinstalling Pidgin. Needless to say, it didn't make a difference.

What I didn't try was to reinstall libpurple. That did the trick.