Oh ! Maybe I forgot a dependency in packaging ... Do you have avahi-daemon installed ? What do you have with : apt-cache show avahi-daemon
$ dpkg -l | grep avahi ii libavahi-client3 0.6.24-0maemo5 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common-data 0.6.24-0maemo5 Avahi common data files ii libavahi-common3 0.6.24-0maemo5 Avahi common library ii libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 0.6.24-0maemo5 Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility library
$ dpkg -l | grep avahi ii avahi-daemon 0.6.24-0maemo5 Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon ii libavahi-client3 0.6.24-0maemo5 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common-data 0.6.24-0maemo5 Avahi common data files ii libavahi-common3 0.6.24-0maemo5 Avahi common library ii libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 0.6.24-0maemo5 Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility library ii libavahi-core5 0.6.24-0maemo5 Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD library
$ heysms Unsupported date format character at 1 (%-d.%-m.) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/heysms", line 32, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/heysms/heysms.py", line 184, in main ui.central_widget.reload_contacts() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/heysms/heysms.py", line 85, in reload_contacts self.parent.bonjour_users = list_presence_users() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/heysms/lib/lib.py", line 201, in list_presence_users callBack=browse_callback) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/heysms/lib/pybonjour.py", line 1409, in DNSServiceBrowse None) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/heysms/lib/pybonjour.py", line 286, in _errcheck raise cls(result) lib.pybonjour.BonjourError: (-65537, 'unknown')