<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > I went to the Ubunta home page to find out how to use the IRC chat > channel without any success the help pages just keep going around in > circles that do not tell you how to install or how to use the programs. > </blockquote></div> If IRC is an issue, I found xchat-gnome to be really great. It's in the repositories so you can download it through Symantic. It shows up under applications>>internet. All you really have to know is that you want is freenode for your netework and #ubuntu for your channel. Once you get started there, you cn look at all the other channels. It took me about five minutes to get it working -- and I'm not anywhere near a power user. It's very intuitive and the GUI interface really helps. Mark C. Miller <a href="mailto:mr.mcmiller@gmail.com">mr.mcmiller@gmail.com</a> [home] <a href="mailto:mmiller@ologn.net">mmiller@ologn.net</a> [church] <a href="mailto:mark_miller@mail.nobl.k12.in.us">mark_miller@mail.nobl.k12.in.us</a> [school] <a href="mailto:mmiller@millermc.net">mmiller@millermc.net</a>