Help with Linux

[fallenapples]

I just installed Ubuntu and I want to download Linux MSN and I do not know what to open the files with, is their a program I need to open files, because they do not open automatically like .exe files.

 

[office politics]

typically you install software with apt-get (unless your running x)

sudo apt-get install *package-name*




ubuntu is a flavor of debian. you can research how to install packages on debian

 

[KSoD]

Open Terminal and type

sudo apt-get amsn

That is the closed thing to MSN you will get for Ubuntu unless you use Pidgin.

 

[farinha]

Or just use the Synaptic packet manager. Go to System->Administration->Synaptic and you can search which application you want to install. One clone of msn is amsn, which youcan find in the repositories, or you can use the Pidgin Internet Messenger. It supports many protocols like msn, irc, icq, google talk and many others. You can find it in Applications->Internet.

 

[Jayce]

I strongly suggest you try Pidgin, as a few others recommended. I use Pidgin for everything now, in both Ubuntu and Windows XP/Vista.