On Lu, 25 ian 21, 09:32:01, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:08:40 +0200 > Andrei POPESCU <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Du, 24 ian 21, 14:05:07, Dan Hitt wrote: > > > > > > Now, i do not have a command 'nft', or at least, no place that i > > > can find a path to it. The man page for iptables-nft however > > > lists your very command as an example, 'nft list ruleset'. But i > > > cannot find 'nft' anywhere in the filesystem (except as a directory > > > in linux-headers-xxxx). > > > > It's part of package 'nftables' and should be installed in > > /usr/sbin/. The package 'nftables' is a Recommends of 'iptables'. > > > > > > What is the output of? > > > > apt-config dump | grep -i recommends > > > Many people don't install recommends automatically.
Sure, I do that myself for really, really small installs, with the
understanding that I have to deal myself with any issues that might
arise due to missing recommends.
> It doesn't get installed by default in anything before buster, so if
> you're running anything earlier (or sid), you need to install it
> manually. Also, an upgrade will not automatically switch to it from
> iptables, even when it is installed.
Quoting from APT's changelog:
apt (0.7.0) experimental; urgency=low
[...]
* merged "install-recommends" branch (ABI break):
- new "--install-recommends"
- install new recommends on "upgrade" if --install-recommends is
given
- new "--fix-policy" option to install all packages with unmet
important dependencies (useful with --install-recommends to
see what not-installed recommends are on the system)
- fix of recommended packages display (only show CandidateVersion
fix or-group handling)
[...]
-- Michael Vogt <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:48:07 +0100
This change was documented in the Release Notes for squeeze (Debian
GNU/Linux 6.0, released in 2011), though it seems like it was already
included in lenny (released in 2009).
https://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#pkgmgmt
Kind regards,
Andrei
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