How To Install fireqos-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install fireqos-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fireqos-doc is easy to use but powerful traffic shaping tool (docs)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fireqos-doc on Debian 10.

What is fireqos-doc

fireqos-doc is:

FireQOS generates generic traffic shapers with an extremely simple but powerful configuration language based on bash, enabling you to design any kind of traffic shaping with ease.

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

This package contains documentation and examples.

There are three methods to install fireqos-doc on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fireqos-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 fireqos-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fireqos-doc

Install fireqos-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fireqos-doc

Install fireqos-doc Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install fireqos-doc

How To Uninstall fireqos-doc on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove fireqos-doc

Uninstall fireqos-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fireqos-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fireqos-doc

Remove fireqos-doc Configurations and Data

To remove fireqos-doc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fireqos-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

fireqos-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fireqos-doc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.