Installing Software On Backtrack

[hitmen]

Do you use ubuntu software installer here?
Synaptic manager does not seem to recognise the files in my root folder.

[laptopz]

and those are .deb files? Tried with dpkg?

[wh1t3fang]

lol we need a bit more information about what you are trying to do. you have not really provided us with anything useful to help you. What files in your /root directory are you talking about?

[Renek]

Yes, it uses a package manager. Not sure if it is the one from Ubuntu or not, though I would assume it is. Alternatively you can install programs just like any other Linux OS. Either make && make install or in the case of .deb files, dpkg.

[laptopz]

Building from source`s got nothing to do with package managers
@OP what are you trying to install?

[hitmen]

I installed Flightgear via Synaptic Package Manager but I am unsure of what to do next:

Before you can run FlightGear, you need to set a couple of environment vari-
ables:
• You must add /usr/local/share/FlightGear/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
• FG_ROOT must be set to the data directory of your FlightGear installation.
e.g. /usr/local/share/FlightGear/data.
• FG_SCENERY should be a list of scenery directories, separated by ”:”. This
works like PATH when searching for scenery.
e.g. $FG_ROOT/Scenery:$FG_ROOT/WorldScenery.
To add these in the Bourne shell (and compatibles):
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/share/FlightGear/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
FG_HOME=/usr/local/share/FlightGear
export FG_HOME
FG_ROOT=/usr/local/share/FlightGear/data

export FG_ROOT
FG_SCENERY=$FG_ROOT/Scenery:$FG_ROOT/WorldScenery
export FG_SCENERY
or in C shell (and compatibles):
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\
/usr/local/share/FlightGear/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
setenv FG_HOME=/usr/local/share/FlightGear
setenv FG_ROOT=/usr/local/share/FlightGear/data
setenv FG_SCENERY=\
$FG_HOME/Scenery:$FG_ROOT/Scenery:$FG_ROOT/WorldScenery
Once you have these environment variables set up, simply start FlightGear by
running fgfs --option1 --option2.... Command-line options are de-
scribed in Chapter 3.5.

I am not sure how to set up environmental variable as /etc/environment does not exist in backtrack

[r083rt]

/etc/ld.so.conf
then do: ld config
you must add the path of flight to it


but backtrack is not for games its a platform from pentesting
the likes of wolfenstein enemy territory if your looking to past time while your waiting
on a process to finish