The process below will take care of that for you - they conflict, so it
will uninstall the shorewall package and leave the config intact for you.
The two packages can't be installed at once - they both provide the
'shorewall' binary (script)

Dave

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 at 15:45, Witold Tosta <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> Do I need to uninstall the old shorewall and shorewall6 packages first,
> leaving only the directories with the configuration files? Can the old
> shorewall packages be installed? I'm using Debian Trixie.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Witold Tosta
>
> wt., 21 lip 2026, 08:45 użytkownik Dave Kempe <[email protected]>
> napisał:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>> As a way to get started quickly, I have added shorewall-nft to the Sol1
>> packages repo.
>> You can set it up here: https://packages.sol1.net/
>> and then simply:
>> apt install shorewall-nft
>> shorewall check
>> shorewall migrate
>> And you are done.
>>
>> If encounter any problems with check or migrate, you can back out and go
>> back to shorewall, (apt install shorewall etc)
>> Note that shorewall-nft conflicts with shorewall and will uninstall it,
>> with the migrate command actually flushing iptables rules.
>>
>> I haven't got any packages repo for rpm based distros, as we are
>> debian/ubuntu from way back, but I'm sure a quick rpm command will work the
>> same sorta way.
>>
>> Dave
>>
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