As I said, it's working now. I uninstalled and reinstalled via synaptic and it found farsight2 but there is a problem, at least when upgrading from the current version to .98b as it's not finding and installing farsight2 and libnice. Without those, the new features might as well not be there. I'll attempt a full install after removing libnice, farsight2 and aMSN to see if an installation from the ground up works without having to install them all separately but the upgrade path still needs some work.
Humm ok, weird but ok I understand

I will test it.