elinks on BeagleBone

installing and running elinks – the text mode browser – on a BeagleBone

BeagleBone is great!

BeagleBone running great

install elinks:

wget http://www.elinks.cz/download/elinks-current-stable.tar.gz
tar - xzvf elinks-current-stable.tar.gz
cd elinks-0.11-20130125 (better press tab after elinks, the last part is the  Read more
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More BeagleBone linux

More Angstrom tools:

systemd, is a system and service manager, a initd replacement

systemd uses journal instead of syslog

journalctl – a “/var/log/messages” replacement

configuration file: /etc/systemd/journald.conf

journalctl can be used in conjuction with grep

opkg – the Read more

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nmap on BeagleBone

Installing nmap on BeagleBone

Maybe the best network scan tool available, the powerful nmap is also free.

http://nmap.org/

Install sequence:

wget http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-6.25.tgz
cd nmap-6.25
./configure
make
make install

The install procedure takes some time (>20 minutes) To get the Read more

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