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Installing Oracle Java on Ubuntu

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If you already have Ubuntu packages of JRE and/or JDK already installed, then you may leave them installed. However, you must uninstall IcedTea. The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from http://openjdk.java.net using free software build tools and adds a number of features to the upstream OpenJDK codebase.

root@ubuntu:~# aptitude search icedtea
i A icedtea-6-jre-cacao - Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using Cacao
i A icedtea-6-jre-jamvm - Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using JamVM
i A icedtea-7-jre-jamvm - Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using JamVM
i A icedtea-netx - NetX - implementation of the Java Network
i A icedtea-plugin - web browser plugin based on OpenJDK and Ic
v icedtea6-jre-cacao -
v icedtea6-jre-cacao -
v icedtea6-plugin -
i icedtea6-plugin - web browser plugin to execute Java applets
root@ubuntu:~# aptitude remove icedtea6-plugin icedtea-plugin icedtea-netx icedtea-7-jre-jamvm icedtea-6-jre-jamvm icedtea-6-jre-cacao

Download Java from Java’s website: http://www.java.com. For 64-bit you want Linux x64 (the file name ending with x64.bin). In this example we downloaded jre-6u31-linux-x64.bin.
Then make a directory for Oracle Java. Move the downloaded file into this new directory:

root@ubuntu:~# mkdir -p /opt/java
root@ubuntu:~# cd /opt/java
root@ubuntu:/opt/java# mv /home/username/downloads/jre-6u31-linux-x64.bin .

Execute the file downloaded:

root@ubuntu:/opt/java$ sh jre-6u31-linux-x64.bin

This will create the directory /opt/java/jre1.6.0_31 containing your new instance of Java. Its name will match the version of Java downloaded. You may now delete the downloaded Java installation file:

root@ubuntu:/opt/java$ rm jre-6u31-linux-x64.bin

Tell the system that there is a new instance of Java available:

root@ubuntu:/opt/java# update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/opt/java/jre1.6.0_31/bin/java" 1
update-alternatives: using /opt/java/jre1.6.0_31/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java (java) in manual mode.

Tell the system to default to the new Java instance:

root@ubuntu:/opt/java# update-alternatives --set java /opt/java/jre1.6.0_31/bin/java

Verify your system is now using this instance of Java:

root@ubuntu:/# java -showversion
java version "1.6.0_31"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_31-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.6-b01, mixed mode)

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Linux, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

Encrypting a Directory using TrueCrypt

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Create a password protected encrypted file container using TrueCrypt stored in the path ~/encrypted/encrypted.tc. The following script will decrypt this file and mount it as the directory ~/encrypted/encrypted. It will also unmount the directory when you are done.
 

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#!/bin/sh
# truecrypt-encrypted
# Mount and unmount an encrypted TrueCrypt directory.
#
# Author: Dave Lehman <dave@nowherelan.com>; http://nowherelan.com
# Date Created: 2012-01-01
# Version: 1.0
################################################################################
SCRIPTNAME=truecrypt-encrypted
ENCRYPTED_FILE=$HOME/encrypted/encrypted.tc
DECRYPTED_MNT=$HOME/encrypted/encrypted
mount(){
    mkdir -p $DECRYPTED_MNT
    truecrypt --text $ENCRYPTED_FILE $DECRYPTED_MNT
    return 0
}
umount(){
    truecrypt --text --dismount $DECRYPTED_FILE
    return 0
}
status(){
    truecrypt --text --list $DECRYPTED_FILE
    return 0
}
case "$1" in
    --mount)
        mount
        ;;
    --umount)
        umount
        ;;
    --status)
        status
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {--mount|--umount|--status}" >&2
        exit 0
        ;;
esac
exit 0
Linux, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5

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I would get this error whenever I would run ‘sudo aptitude update’ or ‘sudo apt-get update’:

W: GPG error: http://mirror.anl.gov oneiric Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>

I was able to resolve this issue for this GPG public key in particular by doing the following:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo mv /var/lib/apt/lists /tmp
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo apt-get update
Ubuntu, Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

vpnc on Ubuntu Oneiric: "Error: either "to" is duplicate, or "ipid" is a garbage."

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When one attempts to connect to their VPN after installing and configuring vpnc on Ubuntu Oneiric, the following error occurs:

root@ubuntu:~# vpnc-connect
Error: either "to" is duplicate, or "ipid" is a garbage.

After some time it eventually times out and fails to create a connection.
vpnc version information:

root@ubuntu:/tmp# vpnc --version
vpnc version 0.5.3
Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Geoffrey Keating, Maurice Massar, others
vpnc comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of vpnc under the terms of the GNU General
Public License.  For more information about these matters, see the files
named COPYING.
Built with certificate support.
Supported DH-Groups: nopfs dh1 dh2 dh5
Supported Hash-Methods: md5 sha1
Supported Encryptions: null des 3des aes128 aes192 aes256
Supported Auth-Methods: psk psk+xauth hybrid(rsa)

It appears that the Ubuntu package vpnc comes with an old version of vpnc-script. This script is what sets up all the addresses and routes for you. The OpenConnect project provides an updated / revised release of this script. Download the latest copy from here . Replace the vpnc-script script that comes with the Ubuntu vpnc package: /etc/vpnc/vpnc-script.

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