2. Installing TkRat

I would like to stress that there are many excellent E-Mail programs available for Linux. It is always a matter of personal preference when selecting which one you will use. That said, I will tell you that I have been using a program called "TkRat" for almost a year now - and I love it. It's a graphical program that has all the features you would expect from a quality mail program, it's easy to learn how to use, it's powerful, and it's free. For these reasons, I'll only be covering TkRat in this HOWTO.

The first thing you need to do is download TkRat. You can either obtain the sources and compile them, or you can get the binaries.

Here are some URLs for the software:

• The Red Hat 5.0 binary is available at http://www.ntlug.org/~dave/sw/tkrat/rh5/tkrat-1.1-1.i386.rpm
• The Red Hat 4.x binary is available at http://www.ntlug.org/~dave/tkrat/sw/rh4/tkrat-1.1-1.i386.rpm
• The Source RPM is available at http://www.ntlug.org/~dave/sw/src/tkrat-1.1-1.src.rpm
• Finally, the tar.gz source is availabe at http://www.ntlug.org/~dave/sw/src/tkrat-1.1.tar.gz

When you have one of the above, you are ready to install it on your system. Follow one of the two instructions below.

• For Red Hat Linux (and other RPM based distributions):

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  rpm -Uvh tkrat-1.1-1.rpm
  

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• To install the tar.gz source, use the commands:

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  tar -zcvpf tkrat-1.1.tar.gz
  cd tkrat-1.1
  ./configure
  make
  make install
  

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  If anything fails, consult the INSTALL and README files located in the tkrat-1.1 directory.

Congratulations - TkRat should now be installed on your system.