by Bruce  Timberlake  (http://lamphowto.com/)
This document will walk you through the installation of what is known as a “LAMP” system: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Depending on who you talk to, the P also stands for Perl or Python, but in general, it is assumed to be PHP. I run CentOS on my servers; [...]

download skype-static package
next do the following steps:-
> COMMANDS
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> tar -xvjf  skype_static-<version>.tar.bz2
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> cd skype_static-<version>
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> mkdir /usr/share/skype
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> cp -a * /usr/share/skype/
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> cd /usr/share/skype/
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> mv skype /usr/bin/
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> mv skype.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
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> chown <your-username>.<your-group> skype.desktop
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> mv skype.desktop ~<your-username>/Desktop
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It is a good idea to create a GRUB boot floppy or CD and print or archive the GRUB configuration file (/boot/grub/grub.conf for Red Hat and /boot/grub/menu.lst for SUSE) for use when GRUB won’t start or won’t display the GRUB menu. The following code illustrates how to create the boot floppy, as explained in Section [...]

Use fdisk to partition your drive properly.
Download an burn 3 Mandrake 8.2 CDs or your favorite distro
Install Windows XP/2000 on the first partition, make sure you use fat 32 as your file system, not xp ntfs
Start your Linux Installation and install the [...]

How to setup PHP My Admin:
Download PHPMyAdmin from the home page:
cd /root/

wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english.zip
cp phpMyAdmin* /var/www
cd /var/www/
unzip phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english.zip
ln -s phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english phpmyadmin
chown apache:apache phpMyAdmin* -R
rm -f phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english.zip
Edit the create tables file , and enable the GRANT line with proper password:-
vi /var/www/phpmyadmin/scripts/create_tables_mysql_4_1_2+.sql
…

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `phpmyadmin`
DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;
USE phpmyadmin;
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