I was trying to configure my system here in Hyderabad office according to "One-True-Way" (vim, evolution, xfce, firefox, multi-gnome-terminal etc.). This is Fedora Core2 and was not installed by me. When I tried installing , I found out that tk was not installed. Same thing happened with . I tried compiling from source, source rpm, binary rpms and was about to give up. Then I remembered about and . These are the tools for package management.

I thought I would give it a try. Yum takes an awful lot of time to get the information about the packages. I was using an http proxy. So I had to set "http_proxy" environment variable. But after that I could install MGT as well as AMSN without a problem. This rocks.

Next problem was mail client. I have been using evolution for some time now and I'm impressed. In our office we use MS Exchange server. I usually configure my evolution to POP mails from exchange. But since I am here for a few days I dint want to do that. I remembered reading about being open source now. This is a plugin for evolution to connect to exchange server. I installed the RPM, configured the exchange server and now I can connect to our exchange server without a problem. The last barrier between a full linux corporate office has been crossed. Way to Go!