[Oisf-users] Suricata stable 1.4 packages are available for Ubuntu on Ubuntu PPA (launchpad).

[Peter Manev]

thank you for the tip!

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Victor Julien <lists at inliniac.net> wrote:

> On 12/13/2012 10:36 PM, Peter Manev wrote:
> > Hi ,
> >
> >  Suricata  stable 1.4 packages are available for Ubuntu on Ubuntu PPA
> > (launchpad).
> >
> >   * 10.04 Lucid
> >   * 11.10 Oneiric
> >   * 12.04 Precise
> >   * 12.10 Quantal
> >   * 13.04 Raring
> >
> >  32 and 64 bit packages available.
> >
> > _*NOTE:*_ This time the packages are build-in with and*IPS (nfqueue) and
> > NSS  enabled* (aka MD5 enabled, ready to use out of the box
> > installation. More info:
> > https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/MD5
> > <https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/MD5>
> ).
> >
> >
> > There is also available "suricata-dbg" (Suricata with enabled debug
> > features) package ready to use out of the box install:
> > "sudo apt-get install suricata-dbg".
> >
> > Suricata 1.4 is available from our suricata-stable repository.
>
> Noticed something odd. If I add both the stable and the beta PPA to my
> system, it picks the 1.4rc1 (from beta) over 1.4 (from stable). IIRC how
> apt/dpkg works is it compares version numbers. It seems in it's logic
> 1.4rc1 > 1.4.
>
> In another project I worked around this by slightly changing the version
> number of the package:
>
> final 1.4
> beta 1.4~beta1
> rc 1.4~rc1
>
> This works because in Debian/Ubuntu the complete version will look like
> this:
>
> 1.4-1ubuntu1
> 1.4~beta1-1ubuntu1
> 1.4~rc1-1ubuntu1
>
> I guess when comparing these version strings the "-" is considered >
> that the "~".
>
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Regards,
Peter Manev
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