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posted by martyb on Monday June 12 2017, @11:45AM   Printer-friendly

The Lubuntu 17.04 Desktop/Live CD(ISO) is missing the package: net-tools[1]

It's troubling to find a LiveCD today that does not have something as simple as netstat and other important tools available.

It's also quite pathetic to discover the recent Debian LiveCDs are missing UFW[2].

[1] "This package includes the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, ifconfig, netstat, rarp, nameif and route."

[2] "The Uncomplicated FireWall is a front-end for iptables, to make managing a Netfilter firewall easier. It provides a command line interface with syntax similar to OpenBSD's Packet Filter. It is particularly well-suited as a host-based firewall."

[Ed note: Assuming one has an internet connection, can't one just do something along the lines of apt-get $package_name to fill in what is missing? Is this just whining on the part of the submitter or an actual shortcoming? What are your thoughts on this?]


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  • (Score: 2) by iWantToKeepAnon on Monday June 12 2017, @06:10PM (2 children)

    by iWantToKeepAnon (686) on Monday June 12 2017, @06:10PM (#524553) Homepage Journal

    can't one just do something along the lines of apt-get $package_name to fill in what is missing?

    This is a LiveCD, you'd have to run several commands every time you booted up. And since it is a CD you couldn't add those commands to a startup script. UFW is less of an oversight than net-tools.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @09:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @09:12PM (#524657)

    Ah, but you need to be at least an Innitiate, not a Novice, and be sworn into the secret "something" to append to "sudo apt install __"
    Good luck finding documentation. Online searches most often provide "help" that is a decade out of date.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @12:39AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @12:39AM (#525180)

      Online searches most often provide "help" that is a decade out of date

      Google has a thing where you can limit searches by time.
      http://www.google.com/search?tbs=qdr:y&q= [google.com]
      y == year
      m == month
      d == day
      h == hour

      You can even turn that into &tbs=qdr:y,sbd:1
      (sort by date) so that they will be ordered most-recent-first.

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