How To Install firewall-config on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firewall-config on Rocky Linux 8.
What is firewall-config
The firewall configuration application provides an configuration interface for firewalld.
We can use yum or dnf to install firewall-config on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firewall-config.
Install firewall-config on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install firewall-config using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install firewall-config
Install firewall-config on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install firewall-config using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install firewall-config
How To Uninstall firewall-config on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the firewall-config package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove firewall-config
firewall-config Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/firewall-config
/usr/share/applications/firewall-config.desktop
/usr/share/firewalld/firewall-config.glade
/usr/share/firewalld/gtk3_chooserbutton.py
/usr/share/firewalld/gtk3_niceexpander.py
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.fedoraproject.FirewallConfig.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/firewall-config.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/firewall-config.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/firewall-config.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/firewall-config.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/firewall-config.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/firewall-config.svg
/usr/share/man/man1/firewall-config.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/firewall-config.appdata.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firewall-config on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
