You need:

• Pidgin (available on Ubuntu standard installation or over apt-get)
• IM-Buddy
• 5 minutes

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Ever wanted to pack your scripts into .deb packages?

Here we go…

You need:

• ‘devscripts’ package (over apt-get)
• your script(s)
• 10 minutes

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Encrypt and digitally sign your mails with GPG, Thunderbird and Enigmail on Ubuntu 8.04.

If you don’t know, what GPG is, read the introduction from the GPG mini Howto, it won’t take long.

Install Thunderbird and Enigmail, start Thunderbird and create or add an email address.

For the following operations, navigate to: OpenPGP -> Key Management

Generate a keypair with: Generate -> New Key Pair

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