Installing Software from tar.gz Tarball Compressed Archive in Linux

This is for newbies in Linux who are trying to learn Linux and in the meantime require to install several apps most of them are available in the repository ( Ubuntu,Suse,Fedora etc .) , installing from repository is very easy but if you download a tarball or a compressed archive of the software package source code then you can easily install it  using these commands at your terminal ( command interpreter )

Assuming ,

• You have downloaded a file named mytarball.gz(replace with whatever is your file name)
• you are in the same directory as where the file resides

tar -zxvf mytarball.tar.gz

./configure

make

sudo make install

assuming that you are in the directory where you downloaded the tar.gz file, for more details on this and how it works, you can read a well written article by Joshua Price here, I dont think it would be worthwhile to repeat the same steps and explanation here .

How to Do Yahoo Webcam chat in Ubuntu Linux

Ever wished to have a Yahoo Webcam chat in your Linux but all you could get was a text chat using pidgin , well for those who did not knew this there is a special multi protocol IM client ( these are those that support multiple chat networks like aol,msn,yahoo,gtalk etc .) it’s name is KOPETE and believe me it is a wonderful. It comes already installed with KDE version of  Ubuntu ie. Kubuntu  but you can get it installed on Ubuntu Gnome from your Synaptic package manager

Using Kopete, you can easily have a Webcam chat with your friends inside Linux .