[Firehol-support] Installing v2.0.3 on Ubuntu 14.04

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi Again:

On 16/07/15 18:49, Rudi wrote:
> Hey Jerome,
> 
> OK cool, I see it looks pretty straight forward.
> 
> I've looked at the source and I've just learned firehol is a bash script.
> 
> I never knew that, just used it from the command line and assumed it was a binary from apt-get.

You are encouraged to use Ubuntu packages: it is far better for maintenance and to keep
your box under a reasonable mess.

> 
> For my local workstation, local VirtualBox and remote VMs (digitalocean.com <http://digitalocean.com>) I'll just copy in the firehol.in <http://firehol.in> file in to the $PATH.
> 
> I like to use Upstart, I don't see an example .conf for that, but it's simple enough to create my own (so that firehol will run on start up).

The debian/ubuntu packages comes with apropriate init.d files.

> 
> All good then, really looking forward to using version 6.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p at rezozer.net <mailto:g6299304p at rezozer.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello List:
> 
>     On 16/07/15 18:25, Rudi wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and when installing firehol with apt-get I get
>     > firehol 1.297-1
>     >
>     > This release uses version 5 syntax correct?
>     >
>     > I'd like to use version 6 syntax, so I'll need the latest stable 2.0.3
>     > correct?
>     >
>     > Since apt-get is not giving me v2.0.3 I'll need to set up manually?
> 
>     v2.0.3 has been brought to Debian testing and unstable [1],
>     and it has reached Ubuntu Wily [2]: you want to build the deb binary files
>     from the deb source files.
> 
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Jerome
> 
>     [1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/f/firehol.html
>     [2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firehol
> 
>     >
>     > Thanks.
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