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Installing Software Center and Synaptic on Backtrack
Install Synaptic Package Manager apt-get install synaptic Install Ubuntu Software Center apt-get install software-center
Install gnome system tools in BackTrack
Install the following package in backtrack to get various system tools such as a ui to manage users and groups. apt-get install gnome-system-tools
Install Network Manager in BackTrack 5
Network Manager installation apt-get -y install network-manager-kde or apt-get -y install network-manager-gnome Backup interfaces file cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.bak Empty interfaces file echo "auto lo" > /etc/network/interfaces Restart BackTrack reboot
Installing VirtualBox on Mac OS X 10.5.8
Download latest VirtualBox from here. Follow the instructions of the installer. If you are getting the following error: “Running VirtualBox VM’s detected! The installer has detected running Virtual Machines.” Then download and install a previous build of VirtualBox. It will work! For older builds of VirtualBox see here.
Fix problems with programs that can’t be installed or uninstalled
If you have any installation or uninstallation issues with programs in Windows, download Microsoft’s fixit tool to repair automatically! http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall/?ln=en-us What it fixes… Removes bad registry key on 64 bit operating systems. Windows registry keys that control the upgrade (patching) data that become corrupted. Resolves problems that prevent new programs from being installed. Resolves problems [...]
Install Snort IDS on Ubuntu
Snort® is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system (IDS/IPS) developed by Sourcefire. Snort Home Page Installation We need Apache, Mysql and PHP. Read this post for instructions on how to install LAMP. Create Snort database Connect to mysql server: mysql -u root -p Execute CREATE DATABASE snort; GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, [...]
Install development tools and kernel headers for Fedora
Development Tools Installation yum groupinstall ‘Development Tools’ Kernel headers Installation yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers or yum install kernel-devel-$(uname -r) kernel-headers-$(uname -r)
CentOS SSH Server Installation
You need to install the following package: su – yum -y install openssh-server Start the service chkconfig sshd on service sshd start
Installing Glassfish 3.1 on Ubuntu
Download Glassfish Get Glassfish from here. Download the file glassfish-3.1.2.zip. Install JDK sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk Unzip Archive unzip /home/username/Downloads/glassfish-3.1.2.zip Start Server Change directory to bin folder and execute the following command: ./asadmin start-domain The command starts the default domain, domain1. Start the Java DB Server ./asadmin start-database –dbhome ../javadb [...]
Install LAMP on Ubuntu 11.10
Let’s see how we can install LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP on Ubuntu 11.10! Install Apache Open terminal and execute the following command: sudo apt-get install apache2 Install MySQL Open terminal and execute the following command: sudo apt-get install mysql-server Install PHP Open terminal and execute the following command: sudo apt-get [...]