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Flash Plugin installing problem in Ubuntu

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Flash plugin is one of the very important plugin of Internet Browser. To watch most of the online video (like YouTube video) and animated picture we need it. But there is a problem installing this plugin in Ubuntu, if you are working inside proxy. If you try to install it from synaptic package manager,  if you want to install it from .deb file or if you install from direct command. The package downloaded fine but when dpkg runs it shows problem. The only way it can be install seems to be in terminal with Ubuntu Restricted Extras. The code is as following: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extra But the worst thing happen when if try to install it and it stop installing. After that you can't open senaptic package manager, you can't open update manager, you can't install or uninstall any software in your system terminal and even you can't run the .deb file. It will always show some error massage. Like " run sudo dpkg --configure -a" or  "first r

Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird

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Mozilla Thunderbird is a cross platform desktop email client which support both IMAP and POP protocol. This is a free open-source software. You can install the English version of software from this site,  http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ . There are other language version also. Actually I have four email account in different provider, like Gmail, Yahoo and my Departmental email. So to check all email I have to open the different account.  Which is very boring and time consuming. So I use Desktop email client and check all mail together. Why I have chosen Mozilla thunder bird? There are other client like Outlook in window and Evolution Mail in Ubuntu (which is actually default client in Ubuntu). Actually I feel that the interface of TB is more easy and attracting Outlook and Evolution Mail. More easy to configure and most interesting is that its selection the conversation in conversation view is better than other two rival. It's a product from Mozilla so there