Jeff Coppock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- 9:38pm up 7 days, 21:13, 5 users, load average: 0.17, 0.16, 0.13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |You take your message to the waters, http://piglet.is.dreaming.org |And you watch the ripples flow