Firewall Questions on Ubuntu

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I tried those.  "build-essential" was nice to know about, but I did not see
"gnome-core-devel" or anything much like it.  I have Warty's universe
enabled, too.

++ kevin


On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:49:13 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > I need to allow remote connects from my local lan to the Ubuntu machine but
> > am not good at configuring the firewall. I've used Firestarter in the past
> > but am not able to install it or Fwbuilder as I get the following error on
> > running configure on the source "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check. Can someone
> > give me the iptables commands to open port 3306 from a 192.168.0.x machine?
> > 
> > Kevin
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> I don't know anything at all aobut network/router what have you, however
> the  "/lib/cpp fails sanity check" error that you got, I think I know
> what it is.  Basically it means that you don't have the tools to compile
> applications, they are NOT installed on a default Ubuntu install.
> 
> Open Synaptic, and install the following packages (I hope you have
> broadband, if not, get yoursel a cup of coffee ! ;o)
> 
> "build-essential" and also "gnome-core-devel"
> 
> The try again compiling your program.
> 
> You may still need dependcies,but these will be specific to your
> program, all the basic/common libraries should now be installed.
> 
> Try that and report ;o)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vince
> 
> 
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> 


-- 
Go back to the top: I almost always top-post
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD