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In Windows I have the chat client Trillian, that supports multiple chat protocols (Facebook, Google+, Skype, AOL, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and many others).Skype does not need to be installed, just Trillian.
I plan to switch to Ubuntu, where Thunderbird is installed.Thunderbird has its own chat client that supports for example Facebook and Google+.The other chat protocols are not supported in Thunderbird.
Is there a way to add support for Skype, AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo?Skype and ICQ would be most important.
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Empathy and Pidgin are popular choices for multi-protocol instant messaging clients in Ubuntu Linux. They're both based on the same library libpurple and therefore roughly the same features.
Unfortunately there is no FOSS solution for Skype without the proprietary client, because Skype doesn't allow that.
The 'Additional Chat Protocols for Thunderbird' addon is not supported in Thunderbird 24.0, the default version in Ubuntu. You can either downgrade your Thunderbird version, or use another IM client such as Pidgin. Pidgin supports many protocols and integrates very well with the Ubuntu UI.
Thunderbird chat supports the XMPP protocol. See whether the service you want to use supports XMPP.
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This tutorial exists for these OS versions
- Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)
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This tutorial shows the installation of an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS minimal server in detail with many screenshots. The purpose of the guide is to show the basic installation of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS that can be used as the basis for our other Ubuntu tutorials here at howtoforge like our perfect server guides. This tutorial uses the LTS branch which gets updates for 5 years from Ubuntu and which is recommended for use on servers.
1. Requirements
To install an Ubuntu Server, you will need the following prerequisites:
- The Ubuntu 18.04 server CD, available here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04.1/release/ubuntu-18.04.1-server-amd64.iso (For 64Bit Intel and AMD CPU's). Take a look here for other Ubuntu downloads: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04.1/release/
- A fast internet connection is recommended as the package updates get downloaded from Ubuntu servers during installation.
2. Preliminary Note
In this tutorial, I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.1.100 and the gateway 192.168.1.1 These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.
3. The Base System
Insert the Ubuntu install CD / DVD into your system and boot from it. When you install the OS in a virtual machine like I will do it here, then you should be able to select the downloaded ISO file as source for the CD/DVD drive in VMWare and Virtualbox without burning it on CD first.
The first screen will show the language selector. Please select your language for the installation process:
Then choose the option Install Ubuntu Server:
Select your language again, this time the language is for the installed Ubuntu OS:
Then choose your location. The location settings are important for the keyboard layout, locale and timezone of your server:
![Ubuntu Ubuntu](https://www.itsmarttricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/How-to-install-jEdit-Text-Editor-Application-in-Ubuntu-18.04-520x245.png)
Choose a keyboard layout: You have the option to let the Ubuntu installer detect the keyboard layout automatically by choosing 'yes' here. I prefer to select the right keyboard from a list and therefore, I choose No & keyboard layout as German:
The installer checks the installation CD, your hardware, and configures the network with DHCP if there is a DHCP server in the network:
Enter the hostname of the system. In this example, my server is named server1.example.com, so I enter server1.example.com:
Ubuntu does not let you log in as root user directly. Therefore, we create a new system user here for the initial login. I will create a user with the name Administrator and user name administrator (don't use the user name admin as it is a reserved name on Ubuntu Linux):
Choose a password: