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 date)
./configure
make && make install

and finally get to google:

browsing the net: BeagleBone running elinks

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 package manager, a ipkg fork

page: http://code.google.com/p/opkg/
download: http://code.google.com/p/opkg/downloads/list

updating the system :  opkg update (?)
package information: opkg info <package name>
install packages:  opkg install <package name>    (ex. samba, a good way to build windows networks)

top  – shows running tasks

top with no arguments  – shows all tasks

top -p <pid> –shows only that specific pid

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 basic help run nmap without arguments.

nmap on BeagleBone

the make step is displaying 2 errors but is ok, make install shows 1 error but it works.