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Before trying to install, we strongly urge you to read and print
a
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ installed. Here are the installation instructions. Once you've printed the appropriate QuickStart Guide, download the
-appropriate modules:
In Shorewall version 4.4.*,
the Shorewall-common, Shorewall-shell and
Shorewall-perl packages are discontinued and replaced with a single Shorewall package which combined the
+ style="font-weight: bold;">Shorewall package which combines the
functions of Shorewall-common and Shorewall-perl. The shell-based
compiler is retired. So with Shorewall 4.4 onward, there are four
packages:
@@ -127,11 +127,14 @@ installed.
To summarize:
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@@ -164,7 +169,7 @@ configuration of the firewalls.
Distribution-specific Download Sites
Simon Matter provides RPMs tailored @@ -205,13 +210,20 @@ installing the RPM.
If you run Debian and would like a .deb
-package, Shorewall is included in both the Debian
+package, Shorewall is included in the Debian Stable Branch,
+the Debian
Testing Branch and the Debian
-Unstable Branch. Additionally, packages for the current Debian
+Unstable Branch. For new installations, it is highly recommended
+that you install the shorewall-common and shorewall-perl packages
+rather than the shorewall package.
+
+Additionally, packages for the current Debian
stable release are available from the package maintainer's personal page.
+ href="http://people.connexer.com/%7Eroberto/debian/">personal page.
+Those packages are almost always more up-to-date than the ones in the
+Debian Stable Branch.