Monday, November 10, 2014

Ifconfig: command not found

CentOS, say it isn't so! Having just done the minimal install of CentOS 7 as a VM, I wanted to install VMware tools. I thought I installed all the prerequisites when the script halted at "Setup is unable to find the "ifconfig" program on your machine."

I ended the script and incredulously ran the ifconfig command, thinking it had to be wrong, but it's no longer included. The ip command has now taken over networking duties, but the VMware script didn't care. I ran yum provides ipconfig, but no love: "No package ifconfig available". A couple of web searches later and I found the package I needed to bring it back...

# yum install net-tools

BTW, don't be surprised if Fedora and RHEL (and it's other offspring) are missing ifconfig as well.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Developer Cannot Be Confirmed

I bought a new camera recently and decided I needed the "old" version of Photoshop I had lying around on my MacBook so I could salvage pics taken with my n00btastic photo skills. So as any reasonable person would do, I installed and then attempted to update Photoshop with the latest available patch from Adobe.

Finding the correct patch on Adobe's site wasn't exactly intuitive, which is surprising from a company that specializes in making software for the web, anyway I digress. Once the patch was downloaded, it wouldn't install. "AdobePhotoshop12-4-mul-AdobeUpdate.dmg can't be opened because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed." Seems hard to believe, and I'm not sure who's to blame here, but after some searching it seems there are a number of rather large companies, i.e. Oracle, that have the same issue. (Either devs are signing their apps incorrectly or Apple released a patch/update breaking the previous verification mechanism.)

In any case, if you trust the developer, this can be overruled with a few clicks and your password:

System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General tab and you will see "App in question" was blocked from opening because the identity of the developer cannot be confirmed.

Click the button to allow anyway and enter your password, the app should start installing immediately.