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RH 9.0 and knetfilter installation

DISCUSSION Steven Ackerman 2 participants 4 messages May 23, 2003 – May 27, 2003

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Greetings list,

I am running RH 9.0 and trying to install knetfilter 3.1.1. I untarred the file .tar.gz file and then used the command rm config.cache; ../configure in the directory the files were untarred (correct usage?) to.

When I do that, it goes through checking for a whole host of different things but stops at the end and says:

Checking for iptables....no
Configure error: No iptables found.

Now it seems obvious to me that iptables is not installed on the machine. I did a server installation and could swear that I did some kind of basic firewall installation. That's unimportant. I need to know how to install iptables and move on from here. I have the 3 Red Hat 9.0 CD's.Can anyone help?

-Steve

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I am running RH 9.0 and trying to install knetfilter 3.1.1. I untarred the file .tar.gz file and then used the command rm config.cache; ../configure in the directory the files were untarred (correct usage?) to.

When I do that, it goes through checking for a whole host of different things but stops at the end and says:

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Checking for iptables....no
Configure error: No iptables found.

Now it seems obvious to me that iptables is not installed on the machine. I did a server installation and could swear that I did some kind of basic firewall installation. That's unimportant. I need to know how to install iptables and move on from here. I have the 3 Red Hat 9.0 CD's. Can anyone help?

Put Red Hat 9 CD 1 in your favourite CD drive and mount it. Assuming you've mounted it as /mnt/cdrom do the following...

rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/iptables-*

...and it will install iptables for you. You can then unmount the CD and put it back to bed...

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#2 lore raw

Hey all.

When I try to install iptables like it is listed below. I get the following error:

error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted
(1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

I am not logged in as root. I'll try that but thought I will post this anyway. Thanks for the help. Hope everyone had a great weekend.

-Steve

Quoted 8 lines · Riley Williams

Put Red Hat 9 CD 1 in your favourite CD drive and mount it. Assuming you've mounted it as /mnt/cdrom do the following...

rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/iptables-*

...and it will install iptables for you. You can then unmount the CD and put it back to bed...

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#3 lore raw

Hi Steven.

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Put Red Hat 9 CD 1 in your favourite CD drive and mount it. Assuming you've mounted it as /mnt/cdrom do the following...

rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/iptables-*

...and it will install iptables for you. You can then unmount the CD and put it back to bed...

When I try to install iptables like it is listed below. I get the following error:

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error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not
permitted (1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

I am not logged in as root.

That would explain the above - with very few exceptions, you have to be logged in as root to install, upgrade or erase RPM packages simply because root is the only user to have write access to most of the directories involved in installing packages.

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