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From: Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl>
Subject: Re: installing ipsets
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:45:42 +0200
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To: Pollywog <linux@shadypond.com>
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Pollywog wrote:

>I am running Debian Sarge and I have just installed iptables following the 
>instructions at http://ipset.netfilter.org/   This documentation does not say 
>whether I need to remove the iptables package provided by Debian, but I would 
>guess this is necessary.  It appears the iptables version I downloaded from 
>the ipsets homepage is a newer version of iptables than what is present in 
>Debian Sarge but if I remove the Debian iptables package, I will need to put 
>a dummy package in its place so as not to cause shorewall to be removed.
>
>Does the old package need to be removed?
>  
>

You can install the new package next to the old one (f.i. in /usr/local) 
but I would look at packaging the new version. As you have the old 
package, this should be relatively trivial.

M4