November 2011

Saturday 26 November 2011

Installing VirtualBox dependencies in ubuntu, linux mint


Download the .deb package from virtual box website.
Before installing .deb package solve the following dependencies

sudo apt-get install bcc iasl xsltproc xalan libxalan110-dev uuid-dev zlib1g-dev
libidl-dev libsdl1.2-dev libxcursor-dev libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libasound2-dev
libstdc++6 build-essential

Now install the virtual box .deb package, installing a .deb package i shown you
earlier in my posts.Also you can use software center to install after solving these
dependencies.

Installing tor in ubuntu


Tor is an anonymous proxy service.To know more,log on to https://www.torproject.org/
First open up the terminal.
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
The sources.list file opens, now add the following line in that,
deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org lucid main
Now save it and exit.
Now in the terminal
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89

gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install tor privoxy
After installation,in the terminal open config file by typing in terminal
sudo gedit /etc/privoxy/config
Add the following line to the file opened
forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
Yes there is a dot after a space in the line above.
Now restart the services by
sudo /etc/init.d/tor restart
sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart
Now tor is installed,now install 'tor button' in your browser to enable
tor in your browser.
 




Tuesday 22 November 2011

Changing DNS server permanently in ubuntu


You might have searched in google a lot to know how to change the DNS
server permanently in ubuntu.OK lets do it.
First open up the terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+T or from menu.
now type the following.
sudo gedit /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
or find dhclient.conf in dhcp3 folder.
Now look for the line starting with prepend and change that line
#prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; to the following below
prepend domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8;
Here i used google DNS, you can use others also,add more than one by
separating it with a comma.





Wednesday 2 November 2011