How To Install firehol-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol-doc on Kali Linux. firehol-doc is easy to use but powerful iptables stateful firewall (docs)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol-doc on Kali Linux.

What is firehol-doc

firehol-doc is:

FireHOL generates generic firewalls with an extremely simple but powerful configuration language based on bash, enabling you to design any kind of local or routing stateful packet filtering firewall with ease.

FireHOL is the firewall counterpart of the FireQOS traffic shaper; both FireHOL and FireQOS support IPv4 and IPv6.

This package contains documentation and examples.

There are three methods to install firehol-doc on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install firehol-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install firehol-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install firehol-doc

Install firehol-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install firehol-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install firehol-doc

Install firehol-doc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install firehol-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install firehol-doc

How To Uninstall firehol-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the firehol-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove firehol-doc

Uninstall firehol-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall firehol-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove firehol-doc

Remove firehol-doc Configurations and Data

To remove firehol-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge firehol-doc

Remove firehol-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove firehol-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge firehol-doc

Dependencies

firehol-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol-doc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.