[off-topic] I don't have any real objection to ORBit2 (it just adds more complexity in an attempt to simplify), but GConf annoys me. I don't particularly want applications to use GConf and if it's installed I'd have to fight when compiling packages to get them to ignore it (--disable-gconf or similar for many packages). If I could be sure that nothing (Chrome aside) would use GConf without having to jump through hoops I'd probably install it, but it's one of those programs that likes to spread its wings far to any program that will have it by default.

Hi, I want to install firestarter on powerpc montavista linux which does not require gnome, is it possible to compile source code without gnome library.

The short answer is no. Firestarter is heavily dependent on gnome. Unfortunately, firestarter looks to be a dead project. It is still functional though. I have recently built a package for slackware-current.

Can you list all the dependancies for FS? Im thinking of installing it, but I'd rather not have to install multiple gnome dependancies as I use fluxbox. Luckily, Gconf and ORBit are already installed on my machine because Inkscape uses them.

Your going to need a bunch of them.

Two things:

• You may want to just install gsb from http://gnomeslackbuild.org/ - they have a #gsb support chan on freenode too if you need a hand at somepoint
• Alternatively, you can use sbopkg quite easily to build the large queuefile you're going to need to install all the deps - just read the readme files in the Slackbuilds and it will show all the deps, build those queue files, and let sbopkg go - then you'll have what appears to be most of gnome as well as firestarter which should fire right up like it did for me.

The nice thing about firestarter was, as a gui, it notified me of warnings. w/rc.firewall, I have to trust the script and watch my logs.

Other than that, firestarter didn't do some things very well at all, while it shined in other areas.

I am saddened, that, as was pointed out in an earlier post, development has somewhat stagnated.

I hope that helps

Kindest regards,

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I dont think I'll bother, it seems like an awful lot of trouble.

The list is pretty extensive. I suggest to run configure and see what it complains about. All dependencies can be found on slackbuilds.org. It's a nice GUI program and it still works great.

sorry, wrong thread

I agree with stormtracknole. It is - except that it has all those gnome deps.

It doesn't have to though, yet someone has to come up with a QT gui or such before that is a reality.

Some of the nice features of it on say, a mobile workstation, are that when you fire it up, it starts flagging and asking you about certain traffic, giving you a choice as to what to do, and then it provides alerts right there.

It's good for bastioning a laptop in a pinch.

But If I hadn't installed things like wireshark and some really robust multimedia stuff already on my laptop, I would have had a huge queue list of deps to install.

I don't even think I realized it, but a good chunk of everything needed gnome was already on that machine and i only had to install like three more deps before firestarter.

I think that perhaps the best way to go about it on a workstation might just be to install GSB and take it from there - that would provide one with the closest to a *no frills* capability for firestarter - even if one didn't run the GNOME desktop environment (because they would still have all the deps at that point).

What I like about firestarter the most, is that it is adaptive in real time - you can even ask it not to bother you if you like.

Now, if what you want is a *configurable* firewall for your network, no, I wouldn't recommend it. just use Eric's web based configuration script and take it from there, edit by hand, and restart rc.firewall or whatev

If it's the GUI that you're hung up on, then perhaps what you're looking for is CSF

Out of the box all you have to do is make rc.httpd executable and uncomment one line and you've got a pretty kewl webserver.

I hope that helps

Kindest regards,