Installing pure-ftpd on a virtual machine

[hcliff]

The tutorials great, but if you're a total beginner, misses one or two points.

You'll need to enable debain sources:

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

mine looks like this (note deb-src):

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main

basically, just add a deb-src entry for each of your entries, you're list doesn't have to look identicle to mine.

next up, install some source build tools:

apt-get install dpkg-dev

apt-get install debhelper libpam-dev libcap-dev libldap2-dev libpq-dev libssl-dev po-debconf

now go ahead and complete the tutorial

also, when running dpkg after compiling, I found the file names were:

dpkg -i pure-ftpd-common_1.0.21-11.4_all.deb pure-ftpd-mysql_1.0.21-11.4_amd64.deb

NOT

dpkg -i pure-ftpd-common_1.0.21-11.4_all.deb pure-ftpd-mysql_1.0.21-11.4_i386.deb

This is if your running a 64bit AMD processor.


Just to check it's all ok:

netstat -tap

And look for pure-ftpd under the pid column.

have fun kids, and remember, always ask for adult supervision when building from source