Teleconference with Jesse Keating

So in my SBR600 class recently we had the pleasure of hearing from Jesse Keating, one of the members of the release team for the Fedora Project. This was a very informative session and I got to learn a lot about the release phase of Fedora and a little of what working for Fedora itself is like. Although he was very informative, I do regret not thinking to ask him of how he got to work as part of the Fedora team because from the sounds of it, it is a very fun a fulfilling job. I could definitely see myself having a great time working as part of the team.

Building packages from source

So first I started with building nled from source on my laptop which is running Ubuntu 8.04. Right from the start it was not ready to be done at all. The problems were not that hard to fix though. I just had to download the packages "build-essentials", which I believe is the C compiler, and the ncurses library. From my searching I found that ncurses is just a toolkit for developing GUI-like apps. The exact commands I used to install these are:

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

After these were installed, I ran the make command and everything worked perfectly.

The next thing that I decided to build was the program called ettercap. Ettercap is a program that is "A multipurpose sniffer/content filter for man in the middle attacks" as the man page for it states. I know what you may be thinking but dont worry, I am using this program in a completely non-threatening way :). This program did prove to be quite a bit more stubborn to install. I was missing several packages. I started by getting the libpcap, libnet, libpthread and zlib packages by using the built in synaptic package manager in ubuntu. After that I could run the configure but it still needed to have the packages GTK+, ATK, and Pango to be able to run the GUI version. I was able to get the ATK and Pango packages from the package manager as well but when I tried to find the GTK+ package there was so many to choose from that I didn't know which one to get. A quick google search later and I found that I needed to run "sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev" to get the package. I ran the configure command again, waited, ran make, waited, ran sudo make install, then it was all done.

I have added a picture of the finished product just to maybe make this blog a little more appealing.

Adam Out!

Hello SBR600 and CDOT

Hello everybody out there.

Well this is my very first blog post for SBR600 and I haven't really had much practice with bloggin' so I'm just gonna get right to the point with this.

Here's my IRC chat, its short but I couldn't think of much to say:

adam_hilts: hey i just got a copy of fedora 10 and was just wondering if it is better to download and use a f11 disc or if the upgrade will be easy?

d3x7r0:Adam_hilts, I would say it would be better to get the F11 iso if you can.

Adam_hilts:d3x7r0: ok thank you

Heres my Fedora Wiki

And last but not least my Seneca Wiki

P.S. IDK if its just me but pasting stuff into blogger is a real pain.