Free automatic installation software for linux

Automatic Firewall is a script that will automatically configure a firewall. If you are a broadband or dial-up user who doesnt have a firewall script, you need to get one to protect yourself. AutoFW is made to help you do that with no efforts.
Many people when connecting to the internet need a firewall script made for them so they can surf the net without being susceptible to various attacks. Most, if not all (until now :-), of the existing scripts are written for a large range of requirements and require some tweaking to make them work for a specific user. However many users do not know which parameters to fill in the script config file.
AutoFW intends to provide a simple firewall script that you just need to fire and forget. You make sure to run it on computer start-up or just before connecting to the net, and it will detect network condition and setup appropriate firewall rules for you.
In order to be "smart" AutoFW has to be limited, the current scope of AutoFW are standard broadband connections, it will also cover dial-up users and stand-alone servers.
AutoFW works only for Linux IPTables firewall and needs the iptables utility to update the firewall, it also needs the ifconfig utility, both of these are available on any standard install of a GNU/Linux machine.
AutoFW also needs the ip program which is part of the iproute2 package, sometimes also called iproute. It is available as a package for any standard GNU/Linux install, not it might not be installed in your particular.
There are two parts that do automatic detection, one is for interfaces and IPs and the other is for open listening ports.
The interface part looks at all the active interfaces in the machine and classifies them between internal and external. It does that by looking at the IPv4 address of the device. If it is one of:
127.0.0.0/8
10.0.0.0/8
172.16.0.0/12
192.168.0.0/16
it is considered to be an internal IP and thus an internal interface, otherwise it is an external IP and thus an external interface. There is no handling of an interface with both an internal and an external IP on it.
The listening ports are scanned for a known port and the accompanying known program name that binds to that port, known ports are opened later in the configuration stage.
The configuration itself is very simple for now, without many of the bell and whistles that exist in other scripts, but it works for the basic needs and provides adequate protection.
Enhancements:
- Internal systems are now protected, as well as servers and NAT gateways.

Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO will explain how to get various multimedia apps working under Fedora Core.

How to get various proprietary and restricted multimedia Damned Things (AVI, Flash, Java, MP3, MPEG, QuickTime, RealMedia, Windows Media) working under Fedora Core using your normal package-management tools. Includes Firefox-plugin instructions. Now with coverage of both 32- and 64-bit Intel-architecture systems.

Unfortunately, the news in FC5 is almost all bad. Totem and Xine are both completely broken.

There are some Damned Things like enabling Java and Flash in Mozilla, playing MP3 files, playing Quicktime/AVI/RealMedia/Windows Media streams, and playing encrypted DVDs that the Fedora distro folks wont tell you how to do, either because theyre afraid of being sued under the DMCA or for various other esthetic and political reasons.

This HOWTO collects the relevant information in one place. It is not a general multimedia-on-Linux HOWTO; if it were, there are hundreds of nifty tools and packages it would list (starting with the GIMP and all its kindred and forks and symbiotes). The packages well cover here are just the legal and political hot potatoes, the stuff that threatens monopolies and worries lawyers.

The Finishing Scripts for Cluster Installations handle specific post-installation configuration that might not be convienent nor possible using existing cluster installation methods.

The usual installation process is used to build a reasonably configured node, and the system then reboots into normal mode, achieves network visibility, and executes the finishing script.

The finishing script handles all of the finer details of installing packaged or non-packaged software, tweaking installation, setting host/net specific parameters/files, etc. It is controlled via a single, easily modified script.

OpticalRayTracer is a free Linux utility that analyzes systems of lenses, it is Xwindows GUI-based.

It uses optical principles and a virtual optical bench to predict the behavior of many kinds of ordinary and exotic lens types. OpticalRayTracer includes an advanced, easy-to-use interface that allows the user to rearrange the optical configuration by simply dragging lenses around using the mouse.

OpticalRayTracer fully analyzes lens optical properties, incuding refraction and dispersion. The dispersion display uses color-coded light beams, as shown above, to simplify interpretation of the results.

Educators take note: OpticalRayTracer has significant educational potential in the teaching of basic optical principles, and it has some entertaining and game-like behaviors to hold the students attention.

OpticalRayTracer includes a detailed tutorial/help file to assist the user in getting started in this interesting activity.

Installation:

Put it in any convenient location.
$ tar -xjf raytracer.tar.bz2
$ cd raytracer.dist
$ ./auto_install.sh
If you dont want the automatic installation or you want to fine-tune the process, instead of running "auto_install.sh", after the unpacking step above, do this:
$ make -f Makefile.cvs dist
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
Obviously you may want to modify some of these steps to suit your platform.

YaaCs is a CATI system that lets you manage and do interviews. YaaC system divides the survey process into administration and strictly operative tasks.
It make easy monitoring survey progress (giving several information), and it allows the management of the the survey with several administration tools.
It simplifies the interviewers work reading all contacts data from an easy and functional GUI. It can send faxes via hylaFAX and save all contacts data in a PostgreSQL database.
Enhancements:
- This release features a rewrite from scratch, VoIP support (IAX2 protocol), automatic outcomes classifcation, a new database design, support for internationalization (with English and Italian translations), new monitoring tools (via the tclami package), instant messaging (IM), the ability to recruit interviewers through SMS, phone, or email, an improved replicates algorithm, and an new installation system that uses autotools.

YaBook is a simple but powerful guestbook running on PHP 5. YaBook project features easy installation and customization, multi-language support, an administration interface, and email notifications on new postings. YaBooks design uses a template system so it can be easy integrated into your page.
YaBook ist built on the Sourdough framework, a web application framework for PHP 5. Various database systems are currently supported, e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, SQLite.
Main features:
- Fully customizable layout and interface (skins support, template based)
- Disallow HTML Code, BBcode support
- Email notification on new entries
- URLs will be transformed into links
- Multipages. Browsable entries with previous/next bar.
- User administration interface
- multi-language support with automatic language detection
- Ability to create multiple moderator and administration users
- Moderators are able to hide/unhide, delete, or edit an entry
- Administrator approvement of new entries if required
- Anti-flood spambot protection by Captcha image verification.

Kompile project is a KDE interface for automatic execution of configurations, compilation and installation of source tarball.
When you compile and install Kompile sources (with normal steps "configure && make && make install") sone new voices are added to konqueror action menu for tar-based compressed archives (.tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz, .tar.bz2).
Main features:
- One-click tarball installation with default commands (decpression -> compile && make && make install).
- One-click uninstall of installed application from tarball with default commands (decompression -> compile && make uninstall).
- Integration in Konquerors actions menu for commons source archives.
- System traybar minimization.
- Informations about installation progress from trybar icon.
- Console output view for optional check installation progress details.
Usage
Instead to command line usage you can selct operations directly form konqueror action menu voices:
- Automatic package install : Install package with default configuration and bulding options (defaults are "configure && make && make install). Its equivalent to type ~]#kompile /archive/path/sourcetarball.tar.bz2
- Automatic package uninstall : Unnstall package with default configuration options (defaults are "configure && make uninstall); Its equivalent to type ~]#kompile --uninstall /archive/path/sourcetarball.tar.bz2
Enhancements:
- Profiles managemnt dialog redesigned.
- Performance improved.
- Corrected some bugs in profle creation for default install operation.
- Fixed sintax problems in checkinstall invocation.
- Minor bugs fixing
- Polish language translation (Thanks to Bogusz Linda)