Shorewall users - Mar 2003 - iproute and shorewall present but no install.

Hello, I have had a lot of success installing/configuring shorewall on my 
own system using webmin. Recently, I have been contracted to do some remote 
admin on a isp co-lo box all through a webmin server index connection from 
my locally running webmin server connected to the remote server. I was able 
to download shorewall from: 
http://shorewall.infohiiway.com/pub/shorewall/LATEST.rpm but when I hit the 
install button I get the following error: 

Install failed : error: failed dependencies:iproute is needed by 
shorewall-1.4.0-1 

At the command line I typed in: ip and got an ip usage message. Also, I 
check for installed packages and I got the following: 

Description Linux 2.2 maintains compatibility with the basic configuration
utilities of the network (ifconfig, route) but a new utility is
required to exploit the new characteristics and features of the
kernel. This package includes the new utilities. 

Package iproute2 Class Networking/Admin
Version 2.4.7.ss010803-9 Vendor Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Architecture i386 Installed 18/Mar/2003 02:57 

Any and all suggestions as for possible approaches to diagnose this problem 
are welcomed. Please advise, David Brown.

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, David Brown wrote:
> 
> At the command line I typed in: ip and got an ip usage message. Also, I 
> check for installed packages and I got the following: 
> 
> Description Linux 2.2 maintains compatibility with the basic configuration
> utilities of the network (ifconfig, route) but a new utility is
> required to exploit the new characteristics and features of the
> kernel. This package includes the new utilities. 
> 
> Package iproute2 Class Networking/Admin
> Version 2.4.7.ss010803-9 Vendor Alexey Kuznetsov
<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
> Architecture i386 Installed 18/Mar/2003 02:57 
> 
> Any and all suggestions as for possible approaches to diagnose this problem
> are welcomed. Please advise, David Brown. 
> 
What''s to diagnose? The Shorewall rpm is built to be dependent on the 
''iproute'' rpm (as RedHat names it). Apparently, the
distribution that you
are using calls it ''iproute2'' (see your own post above).

Simply install Shorewall using the --nodeps options of rpm.

-Tom
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