Installation
Supported operating systems
BCWipe for UNIX is developed to be cross-platform and should run on any POSIX-compliant UNIX flavour.
It was successfully tested on following systems:
| Linux | precompiled binary .rpm or source code packages: .src.rpm, .tar.gz |
| Mac OS X | precompiled binary .dmg |
| HP-UX | source code package .tar.gz |
| AIX | source code package .tar.gz |
| Solaris | source code package .tar.gz |
| FreeBSD | source code package .tar.gz |
| OpenBSD | source code package .tar.gz |
| NetBSD | source code package .tar.gz |
| Tru64 5.1 | source code package .tar.gz |
| SGI IRIX 6.5 | source code package .tar.gz |
Building BCWipe from .tar.gz source code package
Requirements
In order to install BCWipe from the source code package, a standard C language build environment is required:
- C compiler, you can use free GNU C Compiler if you do not have preinstalled one.
- Make utility; please use free GNU Make if you do not have one.
Installation steps
- Unpack the source package: gunzip BCWipe-x.y-z.tar.gz ; tar -xf BCWipe-x.y-z.tar.
- Run ./configure script for build environment setup. You can run ./configure --help to see available options.
- Run make command for BCWipe compilation.
- Run make install command; ask your system administrator if you do not have enough privileges for this command.
Linux: Building BCWipe from .src.rpm source code package
Requirements
An RPM-based Linux system, with astandard C language build environment.
Major RPM-based Linux distributions are: Fedora, RedHat Enterprise Linux, openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise System, Mandriva, CentOS.
Installation steps
- Run rpm --rebuild BCWipe-x.y-z.src.rpm command to build binary RPM package.
- Binary RPM packeage is usually located in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386 directory.
- Install RPM package using rpm -i BCWipe-x.y-z.i386.rpm command.
Linux: Installing BCWipe from precompiled .rpm binary package
Requirements
An RPM-based Linux system on x86-compatible hardware.
Major RPM-based Linux distributions are: Fedora, RedHat Enterprise Linux, openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise System, Mandriva, CentOS.
Installation
Run rpm -i BCWipe-x.y-z.i386.rpm command to install RPM package. Administrator privilegies are required.
Mac OS X: Installing BCWipe .dmg package
Requirements
Mac OS X 10.3 or newer. User interface extension can be installed on Mac OS X 10.6
Installation
- Double-click on .dmg file to see its contents. Safari web browser does it automatically.
- Double-click on bcwipe-x.y-z.pkg to install BCWipe.
- On Mac OS X 10.6 or newer systems you can also install Tthe Finder service (see screenshot).