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Skype is a voip i.e. voice over internet telephony service which also provides you with the features like chat, video-voice chat, screen sharing, and calling telephone numbers at cheap call rates throughout the world almost in all the countries.

The major feature of skype is its online calling service between the PC is absolutely free and moreover has an excellent sound quality. Moreover the call rates are also very cheap.

You can install the skype on Linux as follows.

• Download the skype installation software from here .
• Change your directory to were you have saved the setup files which in our case is at Desktop of the root user.

#cd /root/Desktop

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Mozilla thunderbird is the one of the most famous free open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla foundation.  You can easily receive mail from different mail providers on your desktop and can even store these mails on your local desktop alone. Further you can also remain updated with latest new around the globe or locally by using it. Mozilla thunderbird is just like Microsoft outlook express with only difference is that it supports both IMAP and POP3.  And also unlike outlook express it is open source and can be used equally well on various platforms including Linux. You can simply install thunderbird on Linux by downloading its package from the Mozilla’s site.

Here is a link to Mozilla thunderbird package

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

After downloading the package just follow the steps to install and configure an email client

• Navigate to the directory were you have downloaded the package (thunderbird-3.1.6.tar.bz2). In our case it is on the Desktop

# cd /root/Desktop

#ls

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About Vuze:-
Vuze is torrent pear2pear client which helps you to download files and software’s across various torrents present world wide. You need to have an p2p client for downloading contents from any torrent. There are many torrent clients like bittorrent, utorrent and many more but Vuze is one of the far best choices for Linux and also i personally recommend it because i never faced any issue with vuze.

It is quite simple to install and use vuze on Linux just follow the steps below:-
Note:- You must have Java Runtime Environment installed already before installing Vuze.

• Simply download the software by visiting the Vuze official site http://www.vuze.com .

• Save it on Desktop or were ever you like in our case it is on Desktop.

• Follow with the steps below if you are login as root if not than precede the commands with sudo if you assingned desired priviledge.

• Open a terminal and go to the directory were you have saved the installation files in our case it is on desktop so

# cd /root/Desktop

# ls

Vuze_Installer.tar.bz2      (This is the installation file for vuze which will be saved on your desktop)

• To run this .tar.bz2 file use the following command:-
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  # tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2
  in this case it is
  # tar -jxvf Vuze_Installer.tar.bz2
  

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