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Re: [Sheflug] SSH
> Ok hi all
>
> I am looking at setting up SSh on my slackware 7.1 machine and logging in from my win98 machine .
> So far I have downloaded Putty.exe for win98.
> Then i got Openssh
> tried a compile it said i needed zlib and Openssl.
> So i downloaded these in tarball format.
> I have never updated libraries.
> How hard is it ?
> What do i have to watch for ?
>
IF you don't have zlib or the openssl libraries, then there's nothing to
watch for as you can't break anything :) But I've reinstalled/upgraded
OpenSSL a number of times without breaking anything. Zlib usually comes
installed with the system, so you probably missed that at installation.
If you'd prefer packages, Slack package central is at
http://www.linuxmafia.org/, and there may be packages of both available
there.
Otherwise just follow the install instructions. (The only library that's a
right git to upgrade is glibc as 99% of applications on Linux use it (it's
the C runtime library), so things can get interesting as you work out
what's broken).
SSL libs aren't used by much at the moment, so that should be safe. Zlib
tends to be used be a few things, but if it ain't installed you won't break
anything :) [look for libz.a and libz.so in /usr/lib - if they exist, zlib
is installed].
In Slack 8, OpenSSL is in the openssl.tgz package, whilst libz is in the
zlib.tgz package.
Chris...
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