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Error: Missing Dependency: libffi.so.5 is needed by package python26-2.6.2-2.i386

alex — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:10:37 +0000

One of the annoying things about CentOS Linux is the current dependency on Python version 2.4. Typically I install Python version 2.6 and compile new programs using the 2.6 version of python instead of the 2.4 version. Recently on a server I had just installed CentOS 5.4 on I [...]
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alex — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:36:22 +0000

When compiling an application called pyrit on a new CentOS Linux server I ran into an issue with some libraries. Pyrit is an application used to perform dictionary attacks against WPA handshakes and can be really useful for security auditing. The error below is easily resolved on any version of Linux by simply installing the [...]
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CHL Yum Repository Not Working On 64-Bit CentOS Linux

alex — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:06:57 +0000

Recently we installed a development server running 64-Bit (x86_64) CentOS Linux. One of the things we needed to install was Python version 2.6 without overwriting the default Python version 2.4 on the server. The reason for not wanting to overwrite the default Python version is because other packages such as the Yum Package Manager depend [...]
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Install tshark On CentOS Linux Using The Yum Package Manager

alex — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:52:58 +0000

I use tshark sometimes to strip down packet captures based on specific variables and needed to install tshark on a CentOS Linux server I recently built for various development tasks. The problem is that when attempting to install tshark using yum it returned an error because there was no package named tshark available in any [...]
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Modify The Amount Of Memory Available To A Windows Virtual PC Virtual Machine

alex — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:18:52 +0000

I recently installed Windows Virtual PC on my Windows 7 laptop and so far really like using it for virtual machines. One thing that I needed to change after the initial installation was to assign more available memory to the virtual machine which I initially thought I could do from within the XP Mode virtual [...]
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