Peerguardian 1.5 beta on Fedora Core 2

Feb 11, 2006 by tarotoast    No Comments    Posted under: Internet, IT, Server Diary

Taken directly from Phoenix Labs’ website:

PeerGuardian 2 is Phoenix Labs’ premier IP blocker for Windows. PeerGuardian 2 integrates support for multiple lists, list editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4 (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on P2P.

In this case, however, the platform dealing with is Linux. So here are the steps.

1) PeerGuardian Linux 1.5 beta Source
Grab it from the links on [this thread]
Extract it to a folder and run:
./configure

2) Automake-1.4
As it is required to compile properly, the easiest workaround is to make a symlink to point automake-1.4 to automake-[version] with the command:
ln -s /usr/share/automake-[version]/ /usr/share/automake-1.4

3) libipq.h:
This library is not included in my preconfigured system. Grab the rpm [here]
rpm -iv iptables-devel-1.2.9-1.0.i386.rpm works just fine.

4) curses.h:
This is also missing according to the error message while compiling, so I found it [here]. rpm -iv all the way.

5) Install & Update
Easiest way to get it working is to copy/link the binary into your path, and put the PG.conf under /etc. Here is a [thread] dedicated to this topic.

It should work, and do what you wanted to do with it.

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