Dear All ,

i installed Fedora core 2 and i want upgrade the iptables to last version which i downloaded from netfilter .

unfortunately i can not deinstall iptables from fedora core 2 with below command .

rpm -e iptables

i will be grateful if someone reply me .

Why not? What was the output from this command and were you running it as root?

Why are you using FC2?
Why not use the iptables version from the fedora legacy project?

Dear Simon ,

Thanks for your guide , but i dint find any update package for iptables in http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/2/updates/i386/ .

the last version of the iptable is now 1.3.7 . can i install it on FC2 or i should firs upgrade Kernel ?

additional when i enter rpm -e iptables i recive error which you can see below :

[root@localhost root]# rpm -e iptables
error: Failed dependencies: iptables >= 1.2.8 is needed by (installed) system-config-securitylevel-tui-1.3.12-1
[root@localhost root]# service iptables stop
Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ]
Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter [ OK ]
Unloading iptables modules: [ OK ]
[root@localhost root]# rpm -e iptables
error: Failed dependencies: iptables >= 1.2.8 is needed by (installed) system-config-securitylevel-tui-1.3.12-1

... system-config-securitylevel-tui-1.3.12-1 needs a version of iptables installed in order to work. You are trying to remove it! Thus, it (correctly) won't let you.

What is the exact iptables package? I have been unable to find a FC2 rpm of iptables 1.3 at all ... and the netfilter site contains only source ... perhaps you want to compile the new package from scratch?

You could try rpm -fe (force the removal) then find which packages have broken dependancies and reinstall those. (Or remove system-config-security-level-tui first.)

Do you have a compelling reason to keep FC2? There are many updates since this release. FC4 is still active, and quite good too. Then there's FC6.

If you want lots of experience maintaining a source-based distro, I'd suggest you turn to slackware or gentoo.