When installing the acidbase package on Ubuntu Linux there are numerous popups that require answers. Some of those variables are covered in this article however there is one that when searching debconf selections for it isn’t listed with acidbase so it can be harder to locate. Below I display the popup in question and describe how to setup a debconf variable to get around it.
It can be useful to know the debconf variables for an application you are going to install on Ubuntu Linux before installing the application. Below are the possible debconf variables to set for acidbase when installing on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Precise Pangolin.
I find myself on a regular basis looking for various debconf variables to set before installing packages on Ubuntu. This is typically to not have to type in the answers on the various configuration screens or because I want to script an install of some package. If the package has never been installed before on that specific server then the debconf variables will not display. You can always login to another server where the package is installed to see the variables but I am going to start posting information for common packages here so others can easily find them when searching.
Earlier when installing snort on a CentOS Linux server I ran into a configure error. The error related to the fact that libdnet was not located on the server and while it was installed I did not have the libdnet-devel package installed. Below is the sample output from the configure error, an expandable complete output of the configure error, and the yum command to install libdnet-devel to move past this error when installing snort.
This may seem simple to some people but to others it is not so easy. If you installed Snort yourself you will already know where the rules file is however, these days many Linux distros come with snort pre installed with mysql configured so there is nothing to do but start Snorts IDS.