HackFest HowTo: BeefUP

[Lisa Kachold]

*Tired of broken limitations in your BackTrack4 distro*?  Want to play music
and record your sessions?  Need to use a VPN and fix the clock?

*Check out Beefup:  It will fix everything (every time if you are running a
LiveCD)*

http://virjacode.com/

Excerpt:

Open up a terminal, that a boy.

First you wanna download the source code for Beef Up (just one little source
file):

wget http://virjacode.com/projects/beefup/beefup.cpp



Next you wanna have a quick look through the source code to make sure I
haven't hidden a backdoor in it, I'll give you a minute. . .

OK, next you wanna compile the source code to produce an executable:

g++ beefup.cpp -o beefup



The exectuable is no use on its own though, you need a config file which
specifies all the goodies, where to download them and how to install them.
So download the config file:

wget http://virjacode.com/projects/beefup/beefup.conf



Now you can run the Beef Up program:

./beefup



When the program has finished execution, it will have created a script file
called "get_goodies" in the current directory. To actually download and
install all the goodies you want, you need to run this script:

sudo ./get_goodies



Of course, you can edit the script however you like before running it
(that's why I made the program produce a script instead of just doing
everything automatically).

Here it is in a nutshell:

wget http://virjacode.com/projects/beefup/beefup.cpp
g++ beefup.cpp -o beefup
wget http://virjacode.com/projects/beefup/beefup.conf
./beefup
sudo ./get_goodies

Any comments, questions, suggestions, bug reports, whatever, can be e-mailed
to me; you'll find my e-mail address if you go to the home page, scroll down
and click "About Virjacode".

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