Re: iptables install
Jeff Coppock <jcoppock1@home.com> writes:
> I want to run iptables, but I'm running stable. I have a clean,
> bootable 2.4.6 kernel (took awhile, but I got it), and then realized
> that the iptable package in not in stable, but is in testing and
> unstable. I looked for deb-src, but couldn't find any. I figured I
> could compile it on my stable machine.
>
> Do I need to dist-upgrade to woody to use iptables?
Not a whole dist-upgrade, no, but you might be best off putting a deb-src
entry for testing in sources.list, `apt-get update'-ing, and then doing an
apt-get source iptables
cd iptables-*
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
sudo dpkg -i ../iptables*deb
and you'll be away in one. Probably. :8)
~Tim
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