How To Install libnfqueue-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnfqueue-perl
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libnfqueue-perl
libnfqueue-perl is:
nfqueue-bindings is a set of high-level modules for several languages (Python and Perl, for the moment), for libnetfilter_queue. It provides a userspace API to access packets that have been queued by the kernel packet filter using the NFQUEUE target.
This package contains the Perl bindings for nfqueue.
There are three methods to install libnfqueue-perl
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libnfqueue-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libnfqueue-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libnfqueue-perl
Install libnfqueue-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libnfqueue-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libnfqueue-perl
Install libnfqueue-perl 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libnfqueue-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libnfqueue-perl
How To Uninstall libnfqueue-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libnfqueue-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libnfqueue-perl
Uninstall libnfqueue-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libnfqueue-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnfqueue-perl
Remove libnfqueue-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libnfqueue-perl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libnfqueue-perl
Remove libnfqueue-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libnfqueue-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnfqueue-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnfqueue-perl
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.