On Debian Jessie, the command apt-get install xtables-addons-common returns the error
First Installation: checking all kernels...
dpkg: warning: version '*-*' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
It is likely that 4.5.1-std-1 belongs to a chroot's host
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the
kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
This topic explains how to fix this error.
identifying desired kernel version & switch to it
xtables-addons-common requires kernel 4.3.3 (as seen on source commit)
kernel 4.3.3 is not present in the console bootscript tab (all kernels versions cannot be listed)
we create a ticket and scaleway will return the bootscript_id if the kernel exists in their scaleway database.
The bootscript id for 4.3.3 is f642c6b9-f538-4459-b772-46d43d478bce
Also replace SERVERID and TOKENID below.
curl 'https://api.scaleway.com/servers/SERVERID' -X PATCH -H 'x-auth-token: TOKENID' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"bootscript":"<debian jessie bootscript>"}'
then hard-reboot with the console.
The output of uname -r should be is 4.3.3
linux-4.3.3 source installation:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
install some package to build the module xtables-addons (depends of the package to be installed) :
apt-get install build-essential libtool bison flex libnftnl-dev libmnl-dev libssl-dev autoconf -y
prepare 4.3.3 sources files & clean 4.5.1
rm -fr /lib/modules/4.5.*
zcat /proc/config.gz > /boot/config-4.3.3
cd /tmp
wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.3.3.tar.xz
tar xf linux-4.3.3.tar.xz
cp -r /tmp/linux-4.3.3 /lib/modules/4.3.3-std-1/build
cd /lib/modules/4.3.3-std-1/build/
cp /boot/config-4.3.3 .config
make oldconfig
make prepare
make prepare scripts
this step is dependent of the use case, may be skipped
install iptables-1.6.0
cd /tmp
wget http://fossies.org/linux/misc/iptables-1.6.0.tar.gz
tar xzf iptables-1.6.0.tar.gz
cd iptables-1.6.0/
./configure
make -j4
make install
this step is dependent of the use case, may be skipped
install xtables-addons
cd /usr/src
download https://sourceforge.net/projects/xtables-addons/files/Xtables-addons/xtables-addons-2.9.tar.xz/download
under /usr/src
tar xf xtables-addons-2.9.tar.xz
cd xtables-addons-2.9
./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j4
prepare package installation
this step is also dependent of the nature of the error you first encounter while installing the package before downgrading the linux kernel.
we indentified that /usr/lib/dkms/common.postinst failed.
first we install the package that sets up properly some directories
apt-get remove xtables-addons-common
apt-get install xtables-addons-common
apt-get install SHOULD FAIL with error:
Error! Build of xt_ACCOUNT.ko failed for: 4.3.3-std-1 (x86_64)
mkdir /var/lib/dkms/xtables-addons/2.9
ln -s /usr/src/xtables-addons-2.9 /var/lib/dkms/xtables-addons/2.9/source
cp /usr/src/xtables-addons-2.6/dkms.conf /usr/src/xtables-addons-2.9/
sed -i "s/2\.6/2\.9/g" /usr/src/xtables-addons-2.9/dkms.conf
/usr/lib/dkms/common.postinst xtables-addons 2.9 /usr/share/xtables-addons-dkms
you should see
DKMS: install completed.
xtables-addons is now installed