iptux - an intranet communication tool for linux

People Using a windows machine and connected to a LAN might be familiar with an intranet communication manager called IP Messenger. This is useful for messaging and transferring files from one machine to other machine over LAN. Once installed in your machine, it will automatically detect and show you a list of all the other machines which have this messenger running. You can choose any one on the list and start messaging or file transfer. You can google for IP Messenger and download it for Windows machines.





For Linux users also we have similar application called Gnome IP messenger. I have a previous post here which tells you how to install it. But it has some problem with transfering folders. This is a serious concern. To overcome this problem we have one more similar application called iptux . This is really very cool application. You have lot of features with this application and it has very rich UI. Ubuntu Users can directly get it through Synaptic manger. Just searc for iptux in your Synaptic manager. Alternatively you can download it from Ubuntu Repository and install it. There is different pakage file for different version of ubuntu. Please keep this in mind while downloading. For other flavours of linux users, you can download the tar file from google code page and follow these standard instructions for installing

1. Untar the file and in terminal go to that folder
2. run ./configure and if it fails, it means that something is missing in your OS for compiling the source. You can google with the error it gives and find the solution. Once you are successfull with this step move to next step.
3. run make
4. run make install -- after this you are ready to use your newly installed iptux
5. run make clean -- this step is optional.
6. To start iptux, open and termial and type iptux and enjoy intranet messaging and file transfers.