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:
Linuxprecompiled binary .rpm or source code packages: .src.rpm, .tar.gz
Mac OS Xprecompiled binary .dmg
HP-UXsource code package .tar.gz
AIXsource code package .tar.gz
Solarissource code package .tar.gz
FreeBSDsource code package .tar.gz
OpenBSDsource code package .tar.gz
NetBSDsource code package .tar.gz
Tru64 5.1source code package .tar.gz
SGI IRIX 6.5source 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:

Installation steps

  1. Unpack the source package: gunzip BCWipe-x.y-z.tar.gz ; tar -xf BCWipe-x.y-z.tar.
  2. Run ./configure script for build environment setup. You can run ./configure --help to see available options.
  3. Run make command for BCWipe compilation.
  4. 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

  1. Run rpm --rebuild BCWipe-x.y-z.src.rpm command to build binary RPM package.
  2. Binary RPM packeage is usually located in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386 directory.
  3. 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

  1. Double-click on .dmg file to see its contents. Safari web browser does it automatically.
  2. Double-click on bcwipe-x.y-z.pkg to install BCWipe.
  3. On Mac OS X 10.6 or newer systems you can also install Tthe Finder service (see screenshot).