Find the package(s) missing using YUM. It’s as easy as asking it what provides the missing files. In this case I can see from the last line which file it’s looking for but can’t find. Cut and paste the full path to the file and use it as the argument to “sudo yum whatprovides”, and it will tell you which packages include that file.

First I had to run dos2unix on all the files to get the right new line chars. Then I had to find a patch to fix the kernel-rt problem with the linux-vdso.so.1 missing messages. I found I could run MakeSpec.py and Build.py to compile python scripts into executables after patching. Here’s what the patch does.

Install Bro - Network-based Intrusion Detection, on Fedora or Ubuntu. Bro will get installed in /usr/local/bro/ by default, unless you specified a prefix in configure as I did. I also created a bro user and group to own everything and did the make as that bro user.

Most apps are just fine downloading through apt-get or yum and installing the latest binary version built for your flavour of Linux, but Wine isn’t one of those in the list for me. I suggest compiling Wine from source for everything you need, because the old version available in your package manager is probably old and you’re going to run into problems where the next step is to patch wine to get the latest version anyway, so just do it right now and be done with it.

shc is the only tool i’ve found that will compile scripts so idle hands won’t tamper with your bash shell scripts. Yes, I know I could just use permissions to keep people from reading them and it’s easy to reverse engineer the binary code, but I look at it like …