Posts Tagged ‘install’

You can install Ventrilo under Wine very easily in Ubuntu Linux 8.04.  I did it and got it working in well under an hour.  Here is how you can accomplish such a feat. so you can join your friends on a Vent server whilst gaming or whatever else you may use Ventrilo for.

First : Make sure you have the newest version of Wine setup and installed.

Second : Download Ventrilo for Windows (Here) and install it under Wine.

Third : Now Vent at default requires the use of an audio codec called GSM 6.10, and from my own experience this codec/driver is not included in WINE right of the bat, so youll have to get the file msgsm32.acm (here) and place this file in your system directory under Windows in WINE (you may also try putting it in system32 which is fine, i actually put in both spots to be sure).

Forth : goto the Windows directory (should be /home/.wine/drive_c/windows) and open the file named system.ini and place this line in it under the drivers32 section (for organization sake)

MSACM.msgsm610=msgsm32.acm

ok now you may not have to, but I restarted my computer

Voila! You should now have Vent working, now you may get some errors, but they shouldnt hinder your use to voice chat, as well I have found out and it may only be on my computer and not others but Overlays wouldnt work, but i think it was hardware issue, youll just have to try it out yourself! I hope this helps any of you having trouble with getting this working, also make sure to keep an eye out, the guys who develop Vent are working on a Linux client! Enjoy.

So you’ve just installed Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) and you want to setup a testing server on your machine. This is incredibly more easy to do and configure than installing on a win32 machine. Since Ubuntu is based on Debian in many ways, using APT-GET and understanding package management makes the process so much more efficient. So how do you setup a testing server on your Ubuntu Linux box? Just follow these simple steps:

Open the command line (terminal):

Installing Apache Web Server:

sudo apt-get install apache2

yup that easy! Now your going to want to test the installation to make sure all went well, to do this we are going to make some custom launch buttons that will initiate Apache, stop it or restart it.

Right click a launch panel and choose ‘+Add to panel’ to bring up the ‘Add to Panel’ dialog

Next choose the ‘Custom Application Laucher’ button at the top.

In this dialog I chose ‘Application in Terminal’ as the type, name as the command to be used (ex. Apache Start) and the command to be executed. The commands for each button are as follows:


sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start : this is to start the Webserver
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart : to restart the server

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop : to stop the server

(Note: you can also choose an icon to be used by clicking the icon in the dialog )

To test the webserver…start it, open your favorite browser and goto http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1

you should get a directory listing, simply click the directory listed and you should get a page that says “It Works!” Your default document directory is located at /var/www

Installing PHP

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Ok so Backtrack 3 Beta is out and has been getting alot of attention from what I can see. So here I am sitting in my shorts about to tell you how I installed it to my HDD. I ran the live CD frst to get a feel for the operating system, now I am familiar with Backtrack 2, so getting into this wasn’t all that difficult. If you don’t know about Backtrack, then you should go ahead and head over to Offensive-Security to get the scoop because explaining the distro is out of the scope of this article.

My first step was to acquire the .iso image of Backtrack 3 Beta and burn the image to a disk, I used a DVD simply because I wanted to be safe with space, and I have seen responses that the distribution wasn’t burning to a CD (difference of what 8mb almost? anyways) .

Next I fully wiped my c:\ drive for the new operating system and made sure I did’nt have any straggling partitions.

Next I had to recreate my partition table, I used fdisk in the command line, but there are other programs that can make this task a bit simpler like QTparted which you can find already pre-installed in other distributions. I created 3 partitions the first one was my boot partition table with the ext3 filesystem and allocated about 50mb for it, second I created a 2gb Linux swap, and third I created a partition in the ext3 filesystem and allocated the rest of the remaining disk space to it. You should label the partitions accordinly. My table looked something like this:

/dev/sda1………………………….50MB……………..ext3………………..

/dev/sda2…………………………2GB ………………..linux-swap………

/dev/sda3…………………………247.5GB………….ext3…………………

Create some new directories and mount sda1 and sda2

bt~# cd tmp

bt~# mkdir boot

bt~# mkdir bt3

bt~#mount /dev/sda1

bt~#mount /dev/sda3

Now run your live disk of Backtrack 3 and go into KDE (startx command) when its finished loading goto the Backtrack menu and scroll down to Install Backtrack (not tested) and open it, a green box will appear with some settings you will have to fill in, the first box for the source, I removed what was in there and replaced it with /boot, then replaced the second text box with /tmp/bt3, make sure to choose REAL for the install method and make sure the checkbox for restore .mbr(main boot record) is NOT checked. Then press install. Wait for it, usually the install will hang a bit at around 80%, be patient its just working on a huge file. When installation is finished, close the window and logout to the command line. Now you need to copy some files. At the command line type ls to list the files and directories, you see /boot and there should also be a directory /tmp. Copy all the files from the /boot directory to /tmp/boot and once again to /tmp/bt3/boot . The command to copy is: cp [file to copy] [where to copy to], and if you want to make it easy for the directories use the switch -a

bt boot # cp [file] [to location]

or

bt boot# cp -a [dir] [to location]

reboot your system, and remove CD, voila! you should have it up and running Stay tuned because I also installed Backtrack 3 a different way that of which I will post another time.